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 Venezuela and from Manchester.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Gap Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Delta 5,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Q and Not U,
The Angels of Light,
Albert Ayler,
Minny Pops,
OOIOO,
Unrelated Segments,
Ponytail,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Angry Samoans,
Warren Ellis,
Skaos,
The Stooges,
The Leaves,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boredoms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tubeway Army,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sam Rivers,
Lakeside,
Ken Boothe,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Television Personalities,
Hoover,
David Axelrod,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Soulsonic Force,
the Sonics,
Supertramp,
Khruangbin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Red Krayola,
Tears for Fears,
Bobby Womack,
The Birthday Party,
The Barracudas,
the Bar-Kays,
Dual Sessions,
Hot Snakes,
Eden Ahbez,
Nik Kershaw,
the Swans,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Drive Like Jehu,
Masters at Work,
Blossom Toes,
This Heat,
Crash Course in Science,
Young Marble Giants,
D'Angelo,
The Cowsills,
Kayak,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jeff Mills,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Flipper,
Bizarre Inc.,
Al Stewart,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.