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 Mexico and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Negative Approach to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Barbara Tucker,
Mission of Burma,
Television Personalities,
Second Layer,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
In Retrospect,
Shoche,
The Young Rascals,
Derrick Morgan,
The J.B.'s,
Eurythmics,
Crooked Eye,
The Music Machine,
The Doors,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Letta Mbulu,
Absolute Body Control,
Slick Rick,
Reagan Youth,
Fela Kuti,
48th St. Collective,
Ornette Coleman,
Tom Boy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Görl,
Jimmy McGriff,
Funkadelic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barrington Levy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Soft Cell,
Whodini,
Prince Buster,
Danielle Patucci,
Fear,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Slackers,
Jeff Mills,
Moebius,
X-Ray Spex,
Sonic Youth,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moody Blues,
Alison Limerick,
Intrusion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pere Ubu,
Eli Mardock,
The Smoke,
E-Dancer,
Unrelated Segments,
Rapeman,
June of 44,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scott Walker,
The Gladiators,
Blake Baxter,
Ken Boothe,
The Saints,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.