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 Senegal and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Essential Logic to the grunge 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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Talk Talk,
Junior Murvin,
Black Moon,
The Gories,
Nik Kershaw,
Deadbeat,
Neu!,
Scion,
Kevin Saunderson,
Warren Ellis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roxy Music,
FM Einheit,
Man Eating Sloth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
LL Cool J,
Harmonia,
Swans,
CMW,
New York Dolls,
Joensuu 1685,
Tomorrow,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter and Kerry,
Altered Images,
Joyce Sims,
Loose Ends,
The Move,
Grey Daturas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeru the Damaja,
The Doobie Brothers,
ABC,
Negative Approach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pierre Henry,
Grauzone,
Shoche,
The Martian,
Mission of Burma,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gabor Szabo,
Zero Boys,
The Busters,
DNA,
Yaz,
Tubeway Army,
Desert Stars,
the Swans,
K-Klass,
Davy DMX,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Anakelly,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Motorama,
Sam Rivers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Moebius,
Darondo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Birthday Party,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.