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 Yemen and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 rhodes 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 Lalann to the dance 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 Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Letta Mbulu,
MDC,
Ornette Coleman,
Surgeon,
kango's stein massive,
Alphaville,
Smog,
The Saints,
L. Decosne,
The Seeds,
Fatback Band,
Lungfish,
Visage,
Bill Near,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Technova,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Divine Comedy,
Spandau Ballet,
Massinfluence,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Make Up,
The Angels of Light,
Danielle Patucci,
Chrome,
Andrew Hill,
Schoolly D,
Rufus Thomas,
Sam Rivers,
The Cowsills,
Popol Vuh,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Erykah Badu,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Invisible,
Television Personalities,
Ultra Naté,
Barrington Levy,
Gang Starr,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ronnie Foster,
Nirvana,
Country Teasers,
Lakeside,
DJ Sneak,
The Detroit Cobras,
X-102,
Kenny Larkin,
Adolescents,
Stiv Bators,
Boredoms,
Sällskapet,
H. Thieme,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
The Moleskins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Buzzcocks,
Cecil Taylor,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.