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 Afghanistan and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ohio Players to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
AZ,
The Pretty Things,
Supertramp,
T.S.O.L.,
Massinfluence,
Todd Rundgren,
David Axelrod,
Tubeway Army,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Terry,
Crash Course in Science,
Deakin,
Lyres,
Cluster,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ohio Players,
Juan Atkins,
Angry Samoans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skaos,
Deadbeat,
The Raincoats,
The Move,
Stiv Bators,
Robert Wyatt,
Ossler,
Michelle Simonal,
The Human League,
Soft Machine,
Dark Day,
Spandau Ballet,
Little Man,
Carl Craig,
The Searchers,
Hardrive,
The Associates,
Colin Newman,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Fuzztones,
Neu!,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Average White Band,
Sugar Minott,
The Techniques,
Connie Case,
Cal Tjader,
Can,
The Blackbyrds,
the Bar-Kays,
Eric Copeland,
Harmonia,
Morten Harket,
Fat Boys,
Gichy Dan,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.