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 Angola and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Nico to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Maurizio,
8 Eyed Spy,
China Crisis,
Hashim,
Davy DMX,
Unwound,
Massinfluence,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter and Kerry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Adolescents,
Janne Schatter,
Nik Kershaw,
Bush Tetras,
Drexciya,
KRS-One,
Siglo XX,
Joe Smooth,
10cc,
Morten Harket,
DNA,
Kerri Chandler,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
U.S. Maple,
Hoover,
Dave Gahan,
Ultra Naté,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rosa Yemen,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
FM Einheit,
Hardrive,
Mandrill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Excepter,
Lower 48,
Liliput,
Judy Mowatt,
Youth Brigade,
Howard Jones,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Wings,
Goldenarms,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mars,
Niagra,
Ten City,
Qualms,
Kurtis Blow,
The Saints,
Sound Behaviour,
Dennis Brown,
Arab on Radar,
Blancmange,
The Selecter,
Oneida,
Eddi Front,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.