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 Oman 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Second Layer to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds 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?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Throbbing Gristle,
Harmonia,
Talk Talk,
Schoolly D,
Slick Rick,
Faust,
Patti Smith,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Minor Threat,
Idris Muhammad,
Lucky Dragons,
D'Angelo,
Hardrive,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Popol Vuh,
Wings,
FM Einheit,
The Litter,
Wire,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cluster,
Rekid,
The Vogues,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brick,
Vladislav Delay,
U.S. Maple,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brothers Johnson,
The Residents,
Lyres,
Leonard Cohen,
Los Fastidios,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Misunderstood,
Oblivians,
The Human League,
Interpol,
Marshall Jefferson,
Yusef Lateef,
Aloha Tigers,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Blake Baxter,
the Human League,
Piero Umiliani,
Aural Exciters,
Deakin,
Howard Jones,
Chrome,
The Velvet Underground,
T.S.O.L.,
Hashim,
Panda Bear,
Reagan Youth,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.