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 Kiribati and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
The United States of America,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Zeros,
The Doors,
Barrington Levy,
Rotary Connection,
Jacques Brel,
The J.B.'s,
The Golliwogs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gang Green,
Liliput,
Visage,
Sound Behaviour,
Ludus,
Marine Girls,
Magma,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fluxion,
Radiohead,
The Grass Roots,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tommy Roe,
Delta 5,
Excepter,
Organ,
Suburban Knight,
The Blues Magoos,
The Human League,
Scott Walker,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Move,
Sällskapet,
FM Einheit,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Easy Going,
Isaac Hayes,
KRS-One,
Peter and Kerry,
The Durutti Column,
The Shadows of Knight,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pierre Henry,
Blossom Toes,
Public Enemy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronan,
Avey Tare,
Zapp,
Jeff Mills,
Outsiders,
Robert Görl,
Livin' Joy,
Symarip,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.