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 Bulgaria and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Aswad to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Rosa Yemen,
Circle Jerks,
Cecil Taylor,
The Golliwogs,
Yazoo,
Todd Rundgren,
Nation of Ulysses,
Urselle,
Scrapy,
Letta Mbulu,
Morten Harket,
Gabor Szabo,
Underground Resistance,
Donny Hathaway,
X-101,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Germs,
Tubeway Army,
The Stooges,
Rekid,
The Happenings,
Stockholm Monsters,
Surgeon,
the Bar-Kays,
The Last Poets,
Oblivians,
Avey Tare,
Nick Fraelich,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Martian,
the Slits,
JFA,
Mars,
The Neon Judgement,
Desert Stars,
Kayak,
Soul Sonic Force,
Faraquet,
The United States of America,
Audionom,
Brick,
Hardrive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bootsy Collins,
Unwound,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Talk Talk,
Kurtis Blow,
Lower 48,
Laurel Aitken,
U.S. Maple,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter & Gordon,
Barrington Levy,
Joey Negro,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.