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 Niger and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camberwell Now to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
Cluster,
Half Japanese,
The Raincoats,
Guru Guru,
Zapp,
Pylon,
Joe Finger,
Wire,
Das Ding,
The Cowsills,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barclay James Harvest,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sarah Menescal,
Banda Bassotti,
Flash Fearless,
Public Image Ltd.,
Intrusion,
Sparks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mantronix,
June of 44,
Skaos,
Ralphi Rosario,
Patti Smith,
New Order,
Derrick May,
Boredoms,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marine Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
Colin Newman,
The Count Five,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young,
Byron Stingily,
The Fire Engines,
ABC,
Harry Pussy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Electric Prunes,
Moebius,
Eric Copeland,
Glenn Branca,
F. McDonald,
Shoche,
Anakelly,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Martian,
Scion,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Connie Case,
Sam Rivers,
Mandrill,
Theoretical Girls,
B.T. Express,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.