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 France and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Martian to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Bootsy Collins,
Bill Near,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pylon,
Roxy Music,
B.T. Express,
One Last Wish,
Bobby Sherman,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Animal Collective,
Marmalade,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Index,
Ronan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soulsonic Force,
Thee Headcoats,
The Saints,
Desert Stars,
Young Marble Giants,
Ornette Coleman,
Charles Mingus,
Judy Mowatt,
Amon Düül,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Massinfluence,
Depeche Mode,
Gil Scott Heron,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mission of Burma,
Sixth Finger,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bauhaus,
Sister Nancy,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Cluster,
PIL,
Kurtis Blow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Blossom Toes,
The Vogues,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Roxette,
Q65,
Pole,
Steve Hackett,
Erasure,
Can,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Saccharine Trust,
cv313,
The Stooges,
Brand Nubian,
The Sonics,
Tom Boy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Severed Heads,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.