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 Estonia and from Shanghai.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Wasted Youth to the dance 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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rosa Yemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Outsiders,
Marc Almond,
Pagans,
The Fugs,
The Durutti Column,
The Barracudas,
Mandrill,
Icehouse,
The Mojo Men,
The Invisible,
Sparks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lakeside,
Nico,
Simply Red,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gichy Dan,
The Smoke,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Flipper,
Aloha Tigers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mad Mike,
Average White Band,
Archie Shepp,
Jeff Lynne,
Colin Newman,
Todd Terry,
Model 500,
Josef K,
The Gap Band,
John Foxx,
Accadde A,
X-Ray Spex,
Rotary Connection,
Scion,
Soul II Soul,
Depeche Mode,
The Gun Club,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Organ,
The Residents,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Faraquet,
Excepter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Moss Icon,
Glenn Branca,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Japan,
the Slits,
DJ Style,
The Techniques,
Fear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Terry Callier,
Animal Collective,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.