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 Latvia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 The Sound to the dance 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Zero Boys,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bush Tetras,
Drive Like Jehu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ronnie Foster,
Bobby Byrd,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skarface,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tres Demented,
Vladislav Delay,
Ronan,
10cc,
X-101,
Nico,
The Smoke,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Bananas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cowsills,
The New Christs,
R.M.O.,
Nils Olav,
Basic Channel,
Icehouse,
Harmonia,
Lyres,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moby Grape,
Lebanon Hanover,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eric Dolphy,
Guru Guru,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cheater Slicks,
Kenny Larkin,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Gap Band,
Neu!,
Monks,
Scan 7,
The Monochrome Set,
The Barracudas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Don Cherry,
Donny Hathaway,
Grandmaster Flash,
David Axelrod,
Jeff Mills,
Amon Düül II,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Motorama,
B.T. Express,
Matthew Bourne,
Robert Görl,
Funkadelic,
Gang of Four,
The Golliwogs,
The American Breed,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.