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 Belize and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Electric Prunes to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Magma,
Ultimate Spinach,
Das Ding,
Roxette,
Amazonics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Associates,
Dorothy Ashby,
X-102,
Ultravox,
Scrapy,
Lou Christie,
The Victims,
Black Moon,
LL Cool J,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
MC5,
KRS-One,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barrington Levy,
Piero Umiliani,
Pussy Galore,
Maleditus Sound,
Camberwell Now,
Moebius,
Patti Smith,
John Lydon,
The Dirtbombs,
Moby Grape,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Motions,
Kayak,
Nirvana,
The Offenders,
Theoretical Girls,
Sonic Youth,
Sight & Sound,
Blake Baxter,
Clear Light,
Jeff Mills,
Crooked Eye,
Technova,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erasure,
Harmonia,
Bronski Beat,
cv313,
The Invisible,
R.M.O.,
Circle Jerks,
Silicon Teens,
EPMD,
Brothers Johnson,
Mars,
The New Christs,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.