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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Rotary Connection to the rock 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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango 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 rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
Hashim,
Lou Christie,
Underground Resistance,
The Smiths,
Sugar Minott,
Mandrill,
Jeff Lynne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Alphaville,
Peter & Gordon,
K-Klass,
Arthur Verocai,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Raincoats,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Basic Channel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultra Naté,
Nico,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Von Mondo,
Wire,
Pylon,
Ten City,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gregory Isaacs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Silicon Teens,
The Young Rascals,
Rhythm & Sound,
Half Japanese,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Blake Baxter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bauhaus,
Magma,
Nas,
UT,
Ohio Players,
These Immortal Souls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jawbox,
Fugazi,
Swans,
Rakim,
the Slits,
Sun Ra,
The Doobie Brothers,
Desert Stars,
Matthew Halsall,
The American Breed,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scan 7,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.