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 Canada and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Avey Tare,
Pylon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
kango's stein massive,
Arthur Verocai,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Banda Bassotti,
Goldenarms,
Skarface,
Flash Fearless,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Birthday Party,
Eurythmics,
Clear Light,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter and Kerry,
Q and Not U,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
ABC,
Jeru the Damaja,
Unrelated Segments,
Swans,
Quantec,
The Monks,
Robert Görl,
The Happenings,
Danielle Patucci,
Chris & Cosey,
MDC,
Intrusion,
Mo-Dettes,
Cybotron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kayak,
The United States of America,
Gong,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
David Bowie,
Skaos,
Vainqueur,
Marine Girls,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Josef K,
The Busters,
Rekid,
Adolescents,
La Düsseldorf,
The Black Dice,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Divine Comedy,
Blossom Toes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Techniques,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bang On A Can,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Glambeats Corp.,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.