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 Libya and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Gang Green to the grime 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Fluxion,
Soul II Soul,
Archie Shepp,
Nik Kershaw,
Heaven 17,
Monks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cybotron,
the Human League,
The Doobie Brothers,
Moss Icon,
Smog,
Q65,
Funky Four + One,
Boz Scaggs,
Drexciya,
Fatback Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gun Club,
The Selecter,
Al Stewart,
Joey Negro,
Dorothy Ashby,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hoover,
UT,
Boogie Down Productions,
James White and The Blacks,
The Busters,
Cecil Taylor,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
a-ha,
Au Pairs,
Deadbeat,
Piero Umiliani,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Real Kids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sight & Sound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Martian,
The Pretty Things,
CMW,
In Retrospect,
Jeff Mills,
Audionom,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dawn Penn,
Mars,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Massinfluence,
OOIOO,
Joe Finger,
Crash Course in Science,
the Normal,
The Saints,
Roxette,
The Velvet Underground,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.