Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Bangladesh and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Flamin' Groovies to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Can,
David McCallum,
Grey Daturas,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang Green,
Arthur Verocai,
Rapeman,
The Cramps,
Wally Richardson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Roxette,
Man Parrish,
The Mojo Men,
Negative Approach,
Unwound,
The Black Dice,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eurythmics,
Avey Tare,
Marvin Gaye,
Ash Ra Tempel,
CMW,
Freddie Wadling,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Althea and Donna,
Funky Four + One,
The Slits,
Bobby Womack,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skriet,
The Dirtbombs,
Eric Dolphy,
Grauzone,
Erykah Badu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sonic Youth,
The Toasters,
The Divine Comedy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Seeds,
Hashim,
Amazonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crooked Eye,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Spandau Ballet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Techniques,
Rekid,
China Crisis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fear,
K-Klass,
Index,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.