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 France and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Franke to the crunk 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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Public Enemy,
Funkadelic,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Deepchord,
Rosa Yemen,
The Electric Prunes,
Brass Construction,
Gichy Dan,
Royal Trux,
China Crisis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Robert Görl,
The Invisible,
Urselle,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Inner City,
Barbara Tucker,
Mantronix,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The New Christs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kerrie Biddell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ronnie Foster,
Severed Heads,
Susan Cadogan,
Theoretical Girls,
The Selecter,
Magazine,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Don Cherry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flash Fearless,
The Moleskins,
Aswad,
Quando Quango,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Moon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Litter,
The Raincoats,
Graham Central Station,
Dorothy Ashby,
U.S. Maple,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Human League,
Lower 48,
Todd Rundgren,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hot Snakes,
Infiniti,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.