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 South Africa and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pagans to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Inner City,
Soulsonic Force,
Joyce Sims,
The Dirtbombs,
These Immortal Souls,
Frankie Knuckles,
Stereo Dub,
Icehouse,
The Gories,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Buckinghams,
Barclay James Harvest,
Funkadelic,
Funky Four + One,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Velvet Underground,
Kas Product,
Public Enemy,
Jeru the Damaja,
Simply Red,
Ultra Naté,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kenny Larkin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tommy Roe,
The Happenings,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joey Negro,
Masters at Work,
Arthur Verocai,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Main Source,
Carl Craig,
Brick,
Terry Callier,
Tubeway Army,
Ohio Players,
Unrelated Segments,
Chris & Cosey,
Cymande,
Erykah Badu,
Drexciya,
Skaos,
Jerry's Kids,
Brass Construction,
Country Teasers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bang On A Can,
Siglo XX,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lower 48,
D'Angelo,
Bush Tetras,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.