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 Croatia and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 ABBA to the disco 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soulsonic Force,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sonic Youth,
Khruangbin,
Easy Going,
Grauzone,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Fire Engines,
X-102,
Johnny Osbourne,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lindisfarne,
Accadde A,
the Swans,
Rufus Thomas,
Au Pairs,
Groovy Waters,
Mad Mike,
Kerri Chandler,
New Order,
Moby Grape,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bill Wells,
Theoretical Girls,
Andrew Hill,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Severed Heads,
Marmalade,
Bauhaus,
Mo-Dettes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Guru Guru,
Grey Daturas,
The Seeds,
cv313,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ohio Players,
The Moleskins,
Ponytail,
Hot Snakes,
Tomorrow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Quantec,
The American Breed,
The Last Poets,
The Durutti Column,
the Human League,
Moebius,
Ken Boothe,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Arab on Radar,
Eric Copeland,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.