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 Honduras and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Raincoats to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Technova,
The Golliwogs,
The Happenings,
Mad Mike,
The Walker Brothers,
Ossler,
Gong,
Grauzone,
John Cale,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dave Gahan,
the Sonics,
X-102,
The Shadows of Knight,
Silicon Teens,
Soft Machine,
Toni Rubio,
David Axelrod,
Patti Smith,
Leonard Cohen,
L. Decosne,
The J.B.'s,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rites of Spring,
Byron Stingily,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sam Rivers,
Swans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Accadde A,
Fear,
The Beau Brummels,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronan,
Anakelly,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Symarip,
Josef K,
Inner City,
The Monks,
Kas Product,
Brick,
Desert Stars,
Panda Bear,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nils Olav,
Pere Ubu,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Deepchord,
June Days,
Vladislav Delay,
FM Einheit,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Young Rascals,
Circle Jerks,
Cameo,
Lower 48,
Minutemen,
Black Pus,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.