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 East Timor and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Isaac Hayes to the punk 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Thompson Twins,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
CMW,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rakim,
Amon Düül,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Aural Exciters,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flipper,
Albert Ayler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monks,
The Last Poets,
D'Angelo,
AZ,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter & Gordon,
Television Personalities,
The Cosmic Jokers,
David Bowie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Anakelly,
Saccharine Trust,
Eddi Front,
Cluster,
Swans,
Unwound,
the Sonics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Drexciya,
Pantaleimon,
Black Moon,
Can,
Thee Headcoats,
Alphaville,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dawn Penn,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Arcadia,
Ultra Naté,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scratch Acid,
Sun City Girls,
Swell Maps,
Animal Collective,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Leonard Cohen,
Soulsonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Niagra,
Intrusion,
Avey Tare,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.