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 Chad and from Seoul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Crime to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
FM Einheit,
The Count Five,
Joy Division,
Toni Rubio,
JFA,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Infiniti,
The Shadows of Knight,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stiv Bators,
Nils Olav,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rapeman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Minny Pops,
The Gladiators,
Johnny Osbourne,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Barracudas,
Tres Demented,
The Tremeloes,
Oblivians,
PIL,
Soft Machine,
Sällskapet,
Juan Atkins,
Thompson Twins,
The Red Krayola,
Aural Exciters,
Black Flag,
Lou Christie,
Pole,
Neu!,
Bobby Sherman,
Alison Limerick,
James White and The Blacks,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Pretty Things,
Arthur Verocai,
World's Most,
Blossom Toes,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Make Up,
Fatback Band,
The Offenders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Flesh Eaters,
Piero Umiliani,
Eurythmics,
Icehouse,
Barclay James Harvest,
Reuben Wilson,
Brothers Johnson,
Marine Girls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Moebius,
Pantaleimon,
Gabor Szabo,
Talk Talk,
Agent Orange,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.