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 Norway 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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Soft Machine to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Masters at Work,
Johnny Clarke,
Lower 48,
Essential Logic,
Sandy B,
Can,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Barrington Levy,
Siglo XX,
the Sonics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Grass Roots,
The Saints,
The Evens,
Bronski Beat,
Sun Ra,
The Cramps,
Index,
Scientists,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
The Offenders,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kenny Larkin,
Vainqueur,
Aaron Thompson,
New Age Steppers,
Faraquet,
Lou Christie,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pantaleimon,
Simply Red,
The Neon Judgement,
Tommy Roe,
Davy DMX,
Robert Hood,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
A Certain Ratio,
Marine Girls,
Depeche Mode,
Heaven 17,
X-102,
Sarah Menescal,
Dave Gahan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drexciya,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Leaves,
Derrick May,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chrome,
Lyres,
Scrapy,
Warsaw,
Skriet,
Chris & Cosey,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.