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 Costa Rica and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the güiro 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 Soulsonic Force to the rock 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Darondo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bill Near,
Lightning Bolt,
Blossom Toes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Icehouse,
The Sonics,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Divine Comedy,
Sixth Finger,
ABC,
Swans,
Oblivians,
Barry Ungar,
Soul Sonic Force,
Excepter,
K-Klass,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Cheater Slicks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Juan Atkins,
Cybotron,
Sister Nancy,
Little Man,
the Sonics,
Andrew Hill,
Ludus,
One Last Wish,
Cluster,
The Evens,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wings,
The Gun Club,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Das Ding,
Tears for Fears,
Qualms,
Wolf Eyes,
MDC,
Lalann,
Faust,
Junior Murvin,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tomorrow,
The Tremeloes,
Johnny Clarke,
Robert Görl,
The Residents,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eli Mardock,
Moebius,
Sex Pistols,
Japan,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.