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 Tanzania and from Portland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Boredoms to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Black Moon,
Monolake,
Henry Cow,
the Normal,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang Gang Dance,
Warren Ellis,
Sight & Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cecil Taylor,
Public Enemy,
Dennis Brown,
Index,
UT,
Faraquet,
Cybotron,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Flag,
The Durutti Column,
Nirvana,
The Cure,
Jeff Mills,
Yellowson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Agent Orange,
Ronnie Foster,
Wire,
Matthew Bourne,
Model 500,
The J.B.'s,
Rhythm & Sound,
Skarface,
Goldenarms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
KRS-One,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gabor Szabo,
Bob Dylan,
the Association,
10cc,
Outsiders,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Buzzcocks,
Alison Limerick,
The Slits,
Man Eating Sloth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Freddie Wadling,
Boredoms,
The Slackers,
Excepter,
Bronski Beat,
Althea and Donna,
Scratch Acid,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Radiohead,
Kool Moe Dee,
X-101,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.