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 Peru and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Eve St. Jones,
The Moleskins,
Anakelly,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Juan Atkins,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Fania All-Stars,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Pop Group,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pylon,
Das Ding,
Soulsonic Force,
Cluster,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ronan,
LL Cool J,
China Crisis,
The Raincoats,
Pierre Henry,
The Human League,
Monks,
Schoolly D,
Basic Channel,
Grey Daturas,
The Modern Lovers,
La Düsseldorf,
Glenn Branca,
Mr. Review,
Grauzone,
Boredoms,
Dawn Penn,
Graham Central Station,
PIL,
Agitation Free,
The Trojans,
Soft Machine,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Simply Red,
FM Einheit,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Susan Cadogan,
Adolescents,
Jacques Brel,
The Move,
E-Dancer,
Gregory Isaacs,
X-102,
Neil Young,
Joe Smooth,
Bob Dylan,
Minnie Riperton,
Desert Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yellowson,
The Sound,
The Searchers,
Black Moon,
Can,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.