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 Azerbaijan and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Minnie Riperton,
The Durutti Column,
Harmonia,
Masters at Work,
Marine Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
Stereo Dub,
Robert Wyatt,
Joyce Sims,
The Human League,
Peter & Gordon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Warren Ellis,
Joensuu 1685,
Charles Mingus,
Cal Tjader,
Rotary Connection,
The Cowsills,
The Barracudas,
Alison Limerick,
Gang Green,
Nico,
Lower 48,
Derrick May,
Television Personalities,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arab on Radar,
Stetsasonic,
The Fugs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marc Almond,
Basic Channel,
Bang On A Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Flesh Eaters,
Trumans Water,
Tom Boy,
Skarface,
Scan 7,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Standells,
Rites of Spring,
Heaven 17,
Thompson Twins,
Joy Division,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
MC5,
The Moleskins,
Danielle Patucci,
Average White Band,
Toni Rubio,
Drexciya,
Oneida,
The Doors,
The New Christs,
Slave,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.