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 Chile and from Manila.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Quadrant to the rock 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Scott Walker,
Faust,
Fluxion,
Babytalk,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Blues Magoos,
The Names,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mandrill,
L. Decosne,
Arthur Verocai,
Vainqueur,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Human League,
Unrelated Segments,
Whodini,
Goldenarms,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rites of Spring,
Man Parrish,
Michelle Simonal,
The Birthday Party,
The Wake,
Dawn Penn,
Rosa Yemen,
Junior Murvin,
The Gories,
Dark Day,
Peter & Gordon,
Yazoo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pantaleimon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Robert Hood,
Cymande,
The Shadows of Knight,
Janne Schatter,
The Associates,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Electric Prunes,
Unwound,
Lou Reed,
Sonny Sharrock,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
KRS-One,
Jeff Mills,
Sound Behaviour,
This Heat,
Harmonia,
Gang Gang Dance,
Parry Music,
Silicon Teens,
John Coltrane,
The Remains,
The Move,
Newcleus,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.