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 Czech Republic and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
The Gories,
Massinfluence,
F. McDonald,
Y Pants,
Youth Brigade,
Drive Like Jehu,
Delon & Dalcan,
Yazoo,
Rakim,
Crooked Eye,
Fluxion,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hasil Adkins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scion,
8 Eyed Spy,
Das Ding,
The Move,
Agitation Free,
Colin Newman,
John Lydon,
Dawn Penn,
Sugar Minott,
The Techniques,
Jawbox,
Nik Kershaw,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
48th St. Collective,
Urselle,
Aswad,
Soul II Soul,
Ice-T,
Magma,
Faust,
A Certain Ratio,
Judy Mowatt,
Toni Rubio,
Kas Product,
Supertramp,
Scott Walker,
Lalo Schifrin,
Franke,
The Slackers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Agent Orange,
Sixth Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
Harpers Bizarre,
Carl Craig,
Minutemen,
Tim Buckley,
Skaos,
Schoolly D,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grauzone,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.