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 Cape Verde and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Motions to the dance 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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 J.B.'s,
Lalann,
June Days,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jawbox,
Bad Manners,
Skaos,
the Association,
Flash Fearless,
Gang Green,
The Monochrome Set,
Amon Düül,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hashim,
Lightning Bolt,
Kurtis Blow,
Trumans Water,
Nation of Ulysses,
Babytalk,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joy Division,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jerry's Kids,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Young Marble Giants,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Funky Four + One,
Letta Mbulu,
the Bar-Kays,
Au Pairs,
Surgeon,
Ultra Naté,
The Associates,
DJ Style,
Rekid,
Ultravox,
Leonard Cohen,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Davy DMX,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Infiniti,
Steve Hackett,
Fatback Band,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David McCallum,
The Move,
Monolake,
Brass Construction,
The Fortunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Gregory Isaacs,
Skarface,
Boredoms,
The Seeds,
These Immortal Souls,
Josef K,
Ossler,
Echospace,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.