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 Kazakhstan and from Taipei.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the rock 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a harpsichord 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 spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Eli Mardock,
Deakin,
Crooked Eye,
In Retrospect,
Liliput,
Peter and Kerry,
Eden Ahbez,
Bob Dylan,
Hardrive,
Anakelly,
World's Most,
Parry Music,
Technova,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Agent Orange,
Index,
Dark Day,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fear,
Metal Thangz,
Hot Snakes,
Icehouse,
The Young Rascals,
Rakim,
Bobby Womack,
Idris Muhammad,
Carl Craig,
Youth Brigade,
Drive Like Jehu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Smog,
Chrome,
Bauhaus,
John Lydon,
Minny Pops,
Minor Threat,
The Toasters,
Gang Starr,
Stetsasonic,
Simply Red,
MC5,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lalann,
Desert Stars,
Organ,
The Doors,
Malaria!,
Popol Vuh,
Sunsets and Hearts,
John Holt,
Ornette Coleman,
The United States of America,
Eric Copeland,
ABBA,
Colin Newman,
Masters at Work,
the Swans,
Terry Callier,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.