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 Georgia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba 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 Basic Channel 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scratch Acid,
Bad Manners,
Danielle Patucci,
The Sound,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Negative Approach,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ituana,
UT,
Amon Düül,
Roxy Music,
Altered Images,
Nas,
Juan Atkins,
Hashim,
The Kinks,
Bobby Byrd,
Quantec,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Soft Cell,
DJ Style,
Moebius,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Robert Wyatt,
Barry Ungar,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hasil Adkins,
Robert Görl,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Panda Bear,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Roy Ayers,
Wolf Eyes,
Donald Byrd,
Average White Band,
Spandau Ballet,
Sound Behaviour,
Cymande,
Kas Product,
The Fortunes,
Blancmange,
Avey Tare,
John Cale,
Kayak,
Harry Pussy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yazoo,
Faust,
Lebanon Hanover,
Brothers Johnson,
The Happenings,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crime,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.