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 Lesotho and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the electroclash 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
FM Einheit,
Soft Machine,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deakin,
Motorama,
Boogie Down Productions,
Girls At Our Best!,
Danielle Patucci,
Alphaville,
Alton Ellis,
Nas,
the Association,
Robert Wyatt,
The New Christs,
Lalann,
Piero Umiliani,
Avey Tare,
Brand Nubian,
The Monochrome Set,
The Barracudas,
B.T. Express,
Arcadia,
Sunsets and Hearts,
F. McDonald,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Tremeloes,
Skriet,
Little Man,
Mark Hollis,
Monks,
The Standells,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roy Ayers,
Ken Boothe,
The Moody Blues,
New Order,
The American Breed,
DJ Sneak,
Dennis Brown,
Simply Red,
Minnie Riperton,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mantronix,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sun Ra,
Ice-T,
Bad Manners,
MDC,
Sarah Menescal,
Roger Hodgson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crash Course in Science,
Gabor Szabo,
Bauhaus,
Barrington Levy,
Rapeman,
Tomorrow,
Radiopuhelimet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nick Fraelich,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.