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 Solomon Islands and from Stockholm.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Groovy Waters to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Minutemen,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Seeds,
The Beau Brummels,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Stooges,
The Real Kids,
Leonard Cohen,
Rotary Connection,
Robert Görl,
Delta 5,
Cameo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ken Boothe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Order,
Black Moon,
Lou Reed,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kurtis Blow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Danielle Patucci,
Sarah Menescal,
Warren Ellis,
Glambeats Corp.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scientists,
Drexciya,
The Smoke,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Association,
The Human League,
Gabor Szabo,
Loose Ends,
John Foxx,
Faraquet,
Nils Olav,
Soft Machine,
Parry Music,
David McCallum,
Saccharine Trust,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jeff Mills,
Marc Almond,
Soft Cell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Slick Rick,
Underground Resistance,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jawbox,
Cecil Taylor,
Lyres,
The Martian,
Soulsonic Force,
the Swans,
Panda Bear,
Althea and Donna,
Oneida,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.