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 Sweden and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
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 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 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 The Gap Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pere Ubu,
Das Ding,
Eric Dolphy,
Maleditus Sound,
The Busters,
La Düsseldorf,
Lungfish,
Tears for Fears,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Colin Newman,
Graham Central Station,
The Doors,
Siglo XX,
Glenn Branca,
Kurtis Blow,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wire,
Sight & Sound,
Bluetip,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lyres,
Prince Buster,
The Index,
The Trojans,
Soft Machine,
Clear Light,
Supertramp,
Unrelated Segments,
Jeff Mills,
Junior Murvin,
Quadrant,
Public Image Ltd.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
Public Enemy,
Todd Terry,
Peter & Gordon,
The Durutti Column,
China Crisis,
Arthur Verocai,
Davy DMX,
The Move,
Albert Ayler,
Lower 48,
The Selecter,
The Zeros,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dark Day,
Barry Ungar,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eli Mardock,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
E-Dancer,
New Age Steppers,
Jacques Brel,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.