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 Marshall Islands and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Red Krayola to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Glambeats Corp.,
Absolute Body Control,
Technova,
Rekid,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sun Ra,
The Pretty Things,
Drive Like Jehu,
Talk Talk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
U.S. Maple,
Urselle,
Idris Muhammad,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Byrd,
Siglo XX,
the Sonics,
Negative Approach,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Amon Düül,
Moby Grape,
The Index,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Monochrome Set,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Aloha Tigers,
Thee Headcoats,
Joensuu 1685,
David McCallum,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rod Modell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kayak,
The Busters,
Severed Heads,
Fear,
The Fall,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Monks,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Mummies,
A Certain Ratio,
The Techniques,
Underground Resistance,
Wings,
Laurel Aitken,
Arcadia,
Stiv Bators,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.