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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 linndrum 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 Sun City Girls to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
Mars,
OOIOO,
Masters at Work,
Idris Muhammad,
Neu!,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Martian,
Oneida,
Albert Ayler,
The Gap Band,
Eddi Front,
Dual Sessions,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Das Ding,
Junior Murvin,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Red Krayola,
MC5,
Roxy Music,
Japan,
Mission of Burma,
Ornette Coleman,
Harmonia,
Smog,
Cecil Taylor,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Motions,
Sandy B,
Groovy Waters,
10cc,
Television,
The Pop Group,
Qualms,
Ituana,
CMW,
Fluxion,
Robert Hood,
The Young Rascals,
The Seeds,
Terrestrial Tones,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cure,
DJ Style,
Johnny Clarke,
Bobby Hutcherson,
R.M.O.,
Aaron Thompson,
Grey Daturas,
The Leaves,
Agent Orange,
Tubeway Army,
Banda Bassotti,
Aural Exciters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Toni Rubio,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.