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 Latvia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Easy Going to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Con Funk Shun,
Deepchord,
Saccharine Trust,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scan 7,
Wasted Youth,
Bronski Beat,
D'Angelo,
Lungfish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Agitation Free,
the Human League,
Albert Ayler,
The Mojo Men,
Average White Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yazoo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nico,
Tomorrow,
Scratch Acid,
Sex Pistols,
kango's stein massive,
Man Eating Sloth,
Johnny Clarke,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
CMW,
Reagan Youth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
John Cale,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Divine Comedy,
Roxette,
New Age Steppers,
The Mummies,
Suburban Knight,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Saints,
Graham Central Station,
Colin Newman,
Crooked Eye,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Five Americans,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker,
Parry Music,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Half Japanese,
Goldenarms,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cowsills,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cybotron,
Skaos,
Q65,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ten City,
Robert Görl,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.