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 Eritrea and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bizarre Inc. to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Little Man,
The Knickerbockers,
Blossom Toes,
John Cale,
Godley & Creme,
ABC,
X-102,
The Fortunes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Schoolly D,
Lalann,
La Düsseldorf,
Banda Bassotti,
Rufus Thomas,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Quadrant,
Popol Vuh,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Qualms,
Kas Product,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül,
Gabor Szabo,
Neu!,
The Neon Judgement,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mo-Dettes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Buzzcocks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Trumans Water,
Basic Channel,
Warren Ellis,
Desert Stars,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ken Boothe,
Unwound,
Yellowson,
Sex Pistols,
Q and Not U,
Michelle Simonal,
Mandrill,
Icehouse,
Todd Terry,
Idris Muhammad,
Toni Rubio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Blancmange,
Marmalade,
Eddi Front,
Index,
Crispian St. Peters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marshall Jefferson,
PIL,
Chris & Cosey,
Grauzone,
Kenny Larkin,
UT,
Peter & Gordon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Alison Limerick,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.