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 Qatar and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bologna.
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 guitar 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 Icehouse to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Jesper Dahlback,
New Age Steppers,
Minny Pops,
Unrelated Segments,
Michelle Simonal,
Japan,
Delta 5,
Kevin Saunderson,
Schoolly D,
Aural Exciters,
Subhumans,
Gong,
Eric Dolphy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kaleidoscope,
Flash Fearless,
The Fall,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Junior Murvin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
U.S. Maple,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
48th St. Collective,
Supertramp,
Mandrill,
The Barracudas,
X-102,
These Immortal Souls,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
ABBA,
Eden Ahbez,
Donny Hathaway,
Freddie Wadling,
The Shadows of Knight,
Audionom,
Tres Demented,
Banda Bassotti,
Mad Mike,
Jeff Lynne,
Brothers Johnson,
The New Christs,
Scan 7,
Flipper,
Loose Ends,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fugs,
The Human League,
Yellowson,
The Cowsills,
James White and The Blacks,
New Order,
Stereo Dub,
Nils Olav,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scrapy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
kango's stein massive,
Pole,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.