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 Djibouti and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the oboe 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 Cameo 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Sound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cal Tjader,
Qualms,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sun City Girls,
Symarip,
The Pretty Things,
Royal Trux,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marshall Jefferson,
Archie Shepp,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Delta 5,
Gang Green,
Rufus Thomas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Technova,
Gang of Four,
New Order,
Aaron Thompson,
The Happenings,
Lebanon Hanover,
Warren Ellis,
Adolescents,
Gil Scott Heron,
Franke,
Toni Rubio,
the Fania All-Stars,
Minny Pops,
The Evens,
Glenn Branca,
Scott Walker,
Crispy Ambulance,
Traffic Nightmare,
Visage,
Mad Mike,
John Lydon,
New Age Steppers,
The Monochrome Set,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hashim,
Minnie Riperton,
Bauhaus,
Joy Division,
Glambeats Corp.,
Faust,
Amon Düül II,
Kerrie Biddell,
10cc,
The Doobie Brothers,
Soul II Soul,
Eden Ahbez,
Essential Logic,
CMW,
The Standells,
Jandek,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.