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 Solomon Islands and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Animal Collective,
Piero Umiliani,
Urselle,
Morten Harket,
Roy Ayers,
New York Dolls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Traffic Nightmare,
Negative Approach,
MC5,
Livin' Joy,
Make Up,
David Axelrod,
Pagans,
Gichy Dan,
Rapeman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
kango's stein massive,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fatback Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
China Crisis,
Lyres,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Max Romeo,
The Motions,
The Neon Judgement,
Vladislav Delay,
Nation of Ulysses,
Section 25,
Niagra,
Donny Hathaway,
Letta Mbulu,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Toasters,
Drexciya,
Fad Gadget,
Young Marble Giants,
Khruangbin,
Pierre Henry,
Q65,
Hashim,
Joyce Sims,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eli Mardock,
The Fugs,
John Lydon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Clear Light,
Country Teasers,
a-ha,
Sam Rivers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Delta 5,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Severed Heads,
Second Layer,
Zapp,
Chris & Cosey,
Chris Corsano,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.