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 Sierra Leone and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Shoche to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
The Martian,
The Star Department,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Offenders,
Lou Christie,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ronnie Foster,
John Holt,
Ohio Players,
Nick Fraelich,
Camberwell Now,
Radio Birdman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Piero Umiliani,
Joy Division,
Pharoah Sanders,
New York Dolls,
Metal Thangz,
Charles Mingus,
Spandau Ballet,
Bobby Byrd,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Gap Band,
Soul II Soul,
Derrick May,
Dorothy Ashby,
Von Mondo,
Neil Young,
Fugazi,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joensuu 1685,
Gang of Four,
Rotary Connection,
Subhumans,
Goldenarms,
Dawn Penn,
Adolescents,
cv313,
In Retrospect,
Blancmange,
Babytalk,
Niagra,
The Toasters,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantytec,
Theoretical Girls,
Cybotron,
Tomorrow,
The Fugs,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mad Mike,
Stetsasonic,
Lou Reed,
Absolute Body Control,
Sam Rivers,
Desert Stars,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alton Ellis,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.