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 Bhutan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Letta Mbulu to the techno 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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Arab on Radar,
U.S. Maple,
This Heat,
Pantytec,
Clear Light,
Lyres,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
48th St. Collective,
Barbara Tucker,
the Sonics,
The Mojo Men,
The Divine Comedy,
One Last Wish,
The Kinks,
Todd Rundgren,
The Martian,
The Birthday Party,
the Swans,
Avey Tare,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Hood,
David Bowie,
Chris Corsano,
Radiopuhelimet,
Parry Music,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kenny Larkin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rekid,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ten City,
Crash Course in Science,
Echospace,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flipper,
Rotary Connection,
Jacques Brel,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jeff Mills,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Au Pairs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vainqueur,
Rod Modell,
Marvin Gaye,
Mad Mike,
Byron Stingily,
The Names,
Gastr Del Sol,
Schoolly D,
Gang of Four,
Kevin Saunderson,
Q and Not U,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.