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 Czech Republic and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 harpsichord 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 Black Pus to the rap 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
The Selecter,
Gichy Dan,
Gang Starr,
Niagra,
Spoonie Gee,
The Last Poets,
Eric B and Rakim,
The United States of America,
Soul Sonic Force,
AZ,
The Monochrome Set,
K-Klass,
The Cramps,
Throbbing Gristle,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Names,
Panda Bear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nirvana,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Zero Boys,
Animal Collective,
The Busters,
The Vogues,
Drexciya,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Yaz,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gang Green,
Lungfish,
Altered Images,
Silicon Teens,
The Neon Judgement,
Sonic Youth,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soulsonic Force,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Slits,
The Electric Prunes,
Steve Hackett,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Residents,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Moss Icon,
Flash Fearless,
Sound Behaviour,
Crash Course in Science,
Joyce Sims,
Crooked Eye,
In Retrospect,
ABC,
X-102,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Doors,
Qualms,
Sparks,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.