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 Nicaragua and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 Blossom Toes to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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?
Yellowson,
Arthur Verocai,
Smog,
The New Christs,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roy Ayers,
The Fall,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Moleskins,
The Cramps,
Anakelly,
Sound Behaviour,
Boz Scaggs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Misunderstood,
Lalann,
Symarip,
Todd Terry,
La Düsseldorf,
Alton Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Walker Brothers,
DJ Style,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Slackers,
The Cure,
Gong,
Patti Smith,
Underground Resistance,
Reagan Youth,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cybotron,
Outsiders,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Blackbyrds,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Smiths,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sight & Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Procol Harum,
The Zeros,
The Happenings,
X-102,
Model 500,
EPMD,
Josef K,
Robert Hood,
UT,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Toasters,
cv313,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Guru Guru,
Eli Mardock,
Circle Jerks,
DJ Sneak,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.