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 Taiwan and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Stockholm.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the sitar 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 Wings to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Circle Jerks,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Durutti Column,
Qualms,
The Misunderstood,
Drive Like Jehu,
Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Television Personalities,
Anakelly,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gang Green,
Basic Channel,
Porter Ricks,
Boredoms,
Crooked Eye,
Warsaw,
China Crisis,
Camberwell Now,
Rekid,
Stetsasonic,
Kerrie Biddell,
Section 25,
Henry Cow,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Duran Duran,
Erasure,
Barrington Levy,
The Raincoats,
Niagra,
Flamin' Groovies,
JFA,
Todd Rundgren,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cameo,
the Slits,
Yaz,
Minnie Riperton,
The Slackers,
The Sonics,
Von Mondo,
Young Marble Giants,
Mo-Dettes,
Audionom,
FM Einheit,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soulsonic Force,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Fire Engines,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jimmy McGriff,
Q65,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camouflage,
R.M.O.,
Main Source,
Sister Nancy,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.