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 Lesotho and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Loose Ends to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Brass Construction,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Negative Approach,
Los Fastidios,
Michelle Simonal,
Porter Ricks,
Model 500,
Morten Harket,
Deepchord,
Joy Division,
Flipper,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anakelly,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Subhumans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Altered Images,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Theoretical Girls,
Camberwell Now,
CMW,
Todd Terry,
Kerri Chandler,
Quando Quango,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Radio Birdman,
Scientists,
Idris Muhammad,
World's Most,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Heaven 17,
Arcadia,
Unwound,
Lou Christie,
Underground Resistance,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sex Pistols,
Ronnie Foster,
The United States of America,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bobby Hutcherson,
kango's stein massive,
The Invisible,
Crispian St. Peters,
Depeche Mode,
the Normal,
LL Cool J,
Hasil Adkins,
The Last Poets,
Toni Rubio,
Guru Guru,
Glenn Branca,
Erasure,
AZ,
Gang of Four,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Don Cherry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Finger,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.