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 Korea South and from Woodstock.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultimate Spinach to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
The Smiths,
Slave,
10cc,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grauzone,
Warsaw,
Juan Atkins,
Blake Baxter,
Funkadelic,
Black Flag,
The Shadows of Knight,
Black Moon,
The Monks,
The Gap Band,
K-Klass,
Letta Mbulu,
Public Enemy,
Massinfluence,
Idris Muhammad,
Marine Girls,
Altered Images,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Moss Icon,
David Bowie,
Infiniti,
Gong,
Index,
The Fall,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
PIL,
Wally Richardson,
Eli Mardock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Happenings,
Aswad,
Scrapy,
Pagans,
Lindisfarne,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Last Poets,
Jandek,
Skriet,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marvin Gaye,
Average White Band,
Q65,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pierre Henry,
Matthew Halsall,
Cheater Slicks,
Radio Birdman,
Toni Rubio,
Absolute Body Control,
ABC,
The Slackers,
Pulsallama,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Beau Brummels,
Hasil Adkins,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.