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 Maldives and from Copenhagen.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sonic Youth to the dance 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gap Band,
Japan,
Dennis Brown,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Darondo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Janne Schatter,
The Kinks,
Gichy Dan,
The Residents,
Robert Wyatt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hot Snakes,
Bush Tetras,
Kayak,
The Fall,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cal Tjader,
Swell Maps,
Chris & Cosey,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Dirtbombs,
The Cure,
Bang On A Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Animal Collective,
Spandau Ballet,
Electric Prunes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Robert Hood,
Stockholm Monsters,
David Bowie,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sun City Girls,
Schoolly D,
Soul II Soul,
Con Funk Shun,
T. Rex,
Black Moon,
The Pop Group,
This Heat,
Girls At Our Best!,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Henry Cow,
Donny Hathaway,
Arab on Radar,
Kaleidoscope,
Half Japanese,
Pantytec,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.