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 Australia and from Edmonton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Aaron Thompson to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a B.T. Express record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Lightning Bolt,
The Skatalites,
The Index,
The Saints,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Maleditus Sound,
Stetsasonic,
Bobby Womack,
the Normal,
Bob Dylan,
Marmalade,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang Starr,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gabor Szabo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Monochrome Set,
Babytalk,
Moss Icon,
Roxy Music,
The Alarm Clocks,
Suicide,
The Cure,
Bauhaus,
The Wake,
Simply Red,
Q65,
Funkadelic,
Neil Young,
The Gap Band,
DJ Style,
Roy Ayers,
New York Dolls,
Zapp,
The Birthday Party,
The Doobie Brothers,
Audionom,
Malaria!,
Khruangbin,
The Fugs,
The United States of America,
Matthew Halsall,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Count Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Wyatt,
Amazonics,
Vainqueur,
Maurizio,
Toni Rubio,
Susan Cadogan,
Lyres,
T.S.O.L.,
Pantaleimon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
EPMD,
the Swans,
L. Decosne,
Tommy Roe,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.