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 Mozambique and from Manila.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sugar Minott,
Metal Thangz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kaleidoscope,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Reagan Youth,
Pylon,
Bill Wells,
Interpol,
Nik Kershaw,
Jesper Dahlback,
Monks,
DNA,
Derrick May,
Black Pus,
Von Mondo,
Japan,
Section 25,
Max Romeo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Zapp,
Scientists,
Rites of Spring,
Animal Collective,
Underground Resistance,
The Associates,
The Divine Comedy,
Aloha Tigers,
June of 44,
Thompson Twins,
Marmalade,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Neon Judgement,
Spoonie Gee,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Carl Craig,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scratch Acid,
David Axelrod,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anthony Braxton,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Slits,
The Monochrome Set,
Banda Bassotti,
Sound Behaviour,
Sällskapet,
Panda Bear,
Lower 48,
Letta Mbulu,
Wings,
Lyres,
Gang Starr,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Human League,
Darondo,
Con Funk Shun,
Erasure,
Camberwell Now,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.