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 Singapore and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 David Bowie to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Lower 48,
The Sonics,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Reuben Wilson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Fire Engines,
Eddi Front,
kango's stein massive,
Erasure,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bauhaus,
Eric Copeland,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dawn Penn,
Symarip,
AZ,
Gang of Four,
Man Parrish,
Joe Finger,
Derrick Morgan,
New Order,
Avey Tare,
Circle Jerks,
Supertramp,
Kas Product,
Marcia Griffiths,
Absolute Body Control,
Fluxion,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Chrome,
Oneida,
John Coltrane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Au Pairs,
The Moleskins,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
In Retrospect,
Brass Construction,
Alison Limerick,
Brand Nubian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
New Age Steppers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wasted Youth,
Howard Jones,
The Modern Lovers,
Funkadelic,
Man Eating Sloth,
Technova,
Scientists,
Basic Channel,
Y Pants,
Metal Thangz,
The Victims,
The Fortunes,
Pagans,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.