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 Slovakia and from Tokyo.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 arpeggiator 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 Neil Young to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Junior Murvin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wire,
Eric Copeland,
Television Personalities,
Sam Rivers,
MDC,
The Grass Roots,
Aloha Tigers,
Outsiders,
Freddie Wadling,
Buzzcocks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gang Starr,
June Days,
Kool Moe Dee,
Radio Birdman,
The Pop Group,
Warsaw,
Patti Smith,
John Cale,
The Velvet Underground,
Electric Prunes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
China Crisis,
Henry Cow,
The Seeds,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jawbox,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Sheep,
Surgeon,
The Doors,
Goldenarms,
The Birthday Party,
JFA,
Rhythm & Sound,
Chris & Cosey,
Thee Headcoats,
Cheater Slicks,
Max Romeo,
Isaac Hayes,
Moebius,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bang On A Can,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ornette Coleman,
Newcleus,
Sun Ra,
Sound Behaviour,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Index,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Young Marble Giants,
Malaria!,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Monochrome Set,
Ituana,
Lou Reed,
Ten City,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.