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 Palau and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Searchers to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Malaria!,
T.S.O.L.,
The Martian,
Niagra,
The Index,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Main Source,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
OOIOO,
Thompson Twins,
The Evens,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Basic Channel,
Skarface,
Bob Dylan,
Qualms,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Leonard Cohen,
Mad Mike,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
David McCallum,
Rites of Spring,
Gichy Dan,
Brick,
Moebius,
Johnny Osbourne,
John Coltrane,
DNA,
Wasted Youth,
a-ha,
The Mojo Men,
Patti Smith,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Joy Division,
Alton Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
Infiniti,
Negative Approach,
Wolf Eyes,
Magma,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Residents,
World's Most,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Cramps,
Amazonics,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Freddie Wadling,
Brothers Johnson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Albert Ayler,
Peter & Gordon,
This Heat,
Pylon,
Agitation Free,
Aswad,
Suicide,
Urselle,
Talk Talk,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.