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 Bahamas and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soul II Soul to the grunge 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Mark Hollis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grey Daturas,
Buzzcocks,
Lower 48,
The Raincoats,
The Fugs,
Joyce Sims,
Ludus,
Brothers Johnson,
The Last Poets,
Derrick May,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Danielle Patucci,
Minny Pops,
Jandek,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
DNA,
The Residents,
OOIOO,
Brass Construction,
Pylon,
The Cramps,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Germs,
Steve Hackett,
Thompson Twins,
Heaven 17,
Chris Corsano,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Howard Jones,
Clear Light,
Warsaw,
The Zeros,
The Walker Brothers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cameo,
Yellowson,
U.S. Maple,
Roy Ayers,
The Monochrome Set,
Erasure,
The Dead C,
Bronski Beat,
Sonic Youth,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soft Cell,
The Standells,
Matthew Bourne,
Minor Threat,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Smoke,
Don Cherry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
Newcleus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.