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 Slovenia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Flipper to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fortunes,
Terry Callier,
Hot Snakes,
Bush Tetras,
Marcia Griffiths,
Brass Construction,
Surgeon,
CMW,
Robert Wyatt,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Knickerbockers,
Skarface,
David Axelrod,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cheater Slicks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hashim,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sandy B,
The Techniques,
Jeru the Damaja,
Arcadia,
The Moody Blues,
The Star Department,
Neu!,
Man Parrish,
Fugazi,
Gabor Szabo,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fugs,
Fat Boys,
Excepter,
Deepchord,
Ronnie Foster,
Lakeside,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Newcleus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wasted Youth,
Yellowson,
Rotary Connection,
Janne Schatter,
Half Japanese,
The Electric Prunes,
Soul II Soul,
Aaron Thompson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Happenings,
The Cowsills,
Big Daddy Kane,
Boredoms,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
Black Flag,
Roxy Music,
Bootsy Collins,
Jandek,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.