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 Tunisia and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the crunk 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
The Gories,
B.T. Express,
The Techniques,
Ornette Coleman,
Vainqueur,
Eurythmics,
Roxette,
The Mummies,
Leonard Cohen,
Laurel Aitken,
Yazoo,
Tubeway Army,
Talk Talk,
Flash Fearless,
The Young Rascals,
Ronnie Foster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Zeros,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
OOIOO,
Altered Images,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Minny Pops,
Mr. Review,
MC5,
David McCallum,
Sonny Sharrock,
Desert Stars,
Interpol,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Cure,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reuben Wilson,
R.M.O.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eric Copeland,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amon Düül,
A Certain Ratio,
Skarface,
Johnny Clarke,
Rufus Thomas,
Lindisfarne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Byrd,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scientists,
Blancmange,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Essential Logic,
Yellowson,
Albert Ayler,
Kool Moe Dee,
Susan Cadogan,
Country Teasers,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.