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 Barbados and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Liliput to the punk 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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Livin' Joy,
Electric Prunes,
Deadbeat,
The Doors,
Danielle Patucci,
Black Moon,
Monks,
Reagan Youth,
Fugazi,
Bronski Beat,
Intrusion,
Lebanon Hanover,
Symarip,
Todd Rundgren,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Delta 5,
Maleditus Sound,
The Associates,
Arab on Radar,
Althea and Donna,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
10cc,
Marvin Gaye,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Pretty Things,
Amazonics,
Swans,
Radio Birdman,
Swell Maps,
The Leaves,
DJ Sneak,
Graham Central Station,
Nico,
Josef K,
A Certain Ratio,
Echospace,
Technova,
Make Up,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Agent Orange,
The Cure,
Yellowson,
Funkadelic,
Boogie Down Productions,
The New Christs,
The Busters,
Underground Resistance,
The Flesh Eaters,
Peter and Kerry,
Ludus,
Lyres,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tres Demented,
MC5,
Little Man,
Yaz,
Amon Düül,
Khruangbin,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.