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 Zambia and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Roxy Music to the funk 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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
In Retrospect,
Black Pus,
Basic Channel,
ABBA,
Ken Boothe,
Soft Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deadbeat,
Technova,
Bobby Womack,
Rapeman,
The Motions,
Young Marble Giants,
Buzzcocks,
Inner City,
Hoover,
Massinfluence,
Soft Cell,
Scrapy,
K-Klass,
Fugazi,
Moby Grape,
Eli Mardock,
L. Decosne,
The Pretty Things,
Black Bananas,
Howard Jones,
Ossler,
Rekid,
The Techniques,
The Victims,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Interpol,
Cluster,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jandek,
Duran Duran,
Cameo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
New Order,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bootsy Collins,
Radio Birdman,
EPMD,
Glenn Branca,
Jacques Brel,
Brothers Johnson,
Archie Shepp,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joy Division,
Moebius,
Josef K,
Warsaw,
Sällskapet,
Ultravox,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ronnie Foster,
Derrick May,
Stiv Bators,
Lyres,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.