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 United States and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
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 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
The Litter,
Parry Music,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Michelle Simonal,
Hot Snakes,
Bauhaus,
Roger Hodgson,
Fugazi,
The Young Rascals,
Fatback Band,
cv313,
Ossler,
Sonic Youth,
Big Daddy Kane,
Clear Light,
Popol Vuh,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ronnie Foster,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Slits,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Country Teasers,
Stetsasonic,
Donny Hathaway,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
In Retrospect,
Whodini,
PIL,
The American Breed,
the Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Suburban Knight,
Ice-T,
EPMD,
Tom Boy,
Essential Logic,
Carl Craig,
Wasted Youth,
Icehouse,
UT,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masters at Work,
Stiv Bators,
KRS-One,
Can,
Grauzone,
the Bar-Kays,
Royal Trux,
The Kinks,
Max Romeo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Procol Harum,
Sam Rivers,
Average White Band,
Scratch Acid,
Jacob Miller,
Danielle Patucci,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Boz Scaggs,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.