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 Cameroon and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Reagan Youth to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a H. Thieme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Faust,
Bluetip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter & Gordon,
the Bar-Kays,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kaleidoscope,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Yellowson,
ABC,
Johnny Osbourne,
Procol Harum,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Harry Pussy,
Eve St. Jones,
Nirvana,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sugar Minott,
Bang On A Can,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Evens,
Ossler,
48th St. Collective,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Swans,
Terry Callier,
The Mojo Men,
Pierre Henry,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Simply Red,
Godley & Creme,
Toni Rubio,
John Foxx,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Groovy Waters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barbara Tucker,
Fad Gadget,
Zero Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Remains,
Anthony Braxton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
U.S. Maple,
Shoche,
The Gladiators,
Arab on Radar,
Absolute Body Control,
Minor Threat,
Half Japanese,
The Victims,
Alton Ellis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Audionom,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
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.