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 Rwanda and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Madrid.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ossler to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Flesh Eaters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pylon,
Jawbox,
Fear,
Agent Orange,
The Slits,
kango's stein massive,
Janne Schatter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
KRS-One,
One Last Wish,
Barrington Levy,
Al Stewart,
Television,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
E-Dancer,
Blossom Toes,
Andrew Hill,
PIL,
The Smiths,
The Fortunes,
FM Einheit,
Godley & Creme,
Magazine,
Wally Richardson,
Matthew Halsall,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Groovy Waters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Banda Bassotti,
Faraquet,
Dennis Brown,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Negative Approach,
The Misunderstood,
MDC,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Electric Prunes,
Nico,
The Fall,
Bob Dylan,
Deadbeat,
Henry Cow,
Panda Bear,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Holt,
The Five Americans,
EPMD,
Vladislav Delay,
Subhumans,
The Slackers,
Procol Harum,
Cluster,
Flash Fearless,
Shuggie Otis,
The Zeros,
Soulsonic Force,
Trumans Water,
X-102,
Stiv Bators,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.