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 Kiribati and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the güiro 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Rhythm & Sound,
Marine Girls,
Roxy Music,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rites of Spring,
Dual Sessions,
Soul Sonic Force,
Siglo XX,
Sun Ra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nirvana,
Joensuu 1685,
Quadrant,
Mantronix,
Aaron Thompson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Yazoo,
Joe Finger,
The Fall,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tomorrow,
kango's stein massive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Guru Guru,
Skarface,
New Age Steppers,
Stereo Dub,
Moebius,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lower 48,
Derrick Morgan,
The Knickerbockers,
John Coltrane,
Boz Scaggs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Deepchord,
Ken Boothe,
Shuggie Otis,
The Dirtbombs,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Sherman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Metal Thangz,
Wings,
The Tremeloes,
The Happenings,
The Gap Band,
China Crisis,
The Kinks,
Little Man,
The Count Five,
Marc Almond,
Jawbox,
a-ha,
Pantaleimon,
Rapeman,
The Gladiators,
Outsiders,
The Monochrome Set,
Mad Mike,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.