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 Lebanon and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Warren Ellis,
Bronski Beat,
Sandy B,
Chris Corsano,
The Stooges,
L. Decosne,
KRS-One,
Girls At Our Best!,
DJ Style,
Barbara Tucker,
The Selecter,
Tomorrow,
The Buckinghams,
The Dirtbombs,
Deepchord,
Joe Smooth,
Hot Snakes,
Al Stewart,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Babytalk,
Technova,
Trumans Water,
Circle Jerks,
Mantronix,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gap Band,
Minor Threat,
Joensuu 1685,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Electric Prunes,
Grey Daturas,
Matthew Bourne,
The New Christs,
Delon & Dalcan,
CMW,
Wolf Eyes,
Bobby Womack,
Nirvana,
Inner City,
Moss Icon,
Josef K,
Donald Byrd,
Ohio Players,
Pet Shop Boys,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Funkadelic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Das Ding,
Cybotron,
The Knickerbockers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Faraquet,
Eric Copeland,
Malaria!,
Niagra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Infiniti,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Hashim,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.