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 Georgia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Halifax.
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 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 Marcia Griffiths to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
The Grass Roots,
Nils Olav,
Sarah Menescal,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Chrome,
The Offenders,
The Evens,
Erykah Badu,
Mission of Burma,
Darondo,
Cluster,
Godley & Creme,
Robert Görl,
The Seeds,
Man Parrish,
The Pop Group,
The Trojans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Desert Stars,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fluxion,
Niagra,
FM Einheit,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sonics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tim Buckley,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Durutti Column,
Althea and Donna,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Beau Brummels,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Black Flag,
Second Layer,
Jacques Brel,
The Toasters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Essential Logic,
Derrick May,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobby Sherman,
Eric B and Rakim,
The American Breed,
Simply Red,
Youth Brigade,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Saints,
The Selecter,
Reuben Wilson,
Boredoms,
Radiohead,
Soul II Soul,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hashim,
Bad Manners,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Charles Mingus,
Metal Thangz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.