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 Russia and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Deakin to the rock 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
Guru Guru,
Malaria!,
MC5,
The Gap Band,
The Moleskins,
Terry Callier,
Soft Cell,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nirvana,
The Birthday Party,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Echospace,
FM Einheit,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Basic Channel,
8 Eyed Spy,
Wire,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Moby Grape,
Flipper,
Intrusion,
Sexual Harrassment,
MDC,
The Standells,
Underground Resistance,
Icehouse,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bizarre Inc.,
Duran Duran,
Television Personalities,
Animal Collective,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Association,
Subhumans,
Erasure,
Camouflage,
Brick,
Fatback Band,
The Skatalites,
The Techniques,
Reagan Youth,
Sparks,
Country Teasers,
Danielle Patucci,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Loose Ends,
Fugazi,
Hardrive,
The Count Five,
Massinfluence,
The Sonics,
kango's stein massive,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ultra Naté,
James White and The Blacks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock 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.