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 Sierra Leone and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Con Funk Shun to the electroclash 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gong,
Nils Olav,
Model 500,
the Fania All-Stars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Magma,
Patti Smith,
Monks,
These Immortal Souls,
Max Romeo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Blues Magoos,
The Remains,
Radiohead,
Tears for Fears,
FM Einheit,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Schoolly D,
Y Pants,
Grauzone,
Crash Course in Science,
The Names,
Eli Mardock,
Nation of Ulysses,
Freddie Wadling,
Chrome,
One Last Wish,
Hot Snakes,
The Pop Group,
EPMD,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Pus,
Moss Icon,
New York Dolls,
Joe Finger,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gun Club,
Al Stewart,
Franke,
The Shadows of Knight,
Country Teasers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Vainqueur,
Bill Wells,
Circle Jerks,
Metal Thangz,
Terrestrial Tones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kaleidoscope,
Brothers Johnson,
AZ,
Maurizio,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Invisible,
the Germs,
the Human League,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Spoonie Gee,
Eurythmics,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.