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 Slovenia and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Pole to the rap 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
The Gun Club,
The Mojo Men,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pop Group,
The Divine Comedy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DNA,
Tomorrow,
Minutemen,
Sixth Finger,
La Düsseldorf,
LL Cool J,
Massinfluence,
The Cowsills,
Carl Craig,
Fat Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Prince Buster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Echospace,
Harpers Bizarre,
Make Up,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gang Gang Dance,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marine Girls,
The Remains,
Aural Exciters,
Albert Ayler,
Radiohead,
cv313,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Groovy Waters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Monks,
The Dead C,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang Starr,
The Doobie Brothers,
X-101,
Magazine,
Pierre Henry,
Alice Coltrane,
Joyce Sims,
The Walker Brothers,
the Association,
Sight & Sound,
The Cure,
Erasure,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Crispy Ambulance,
Con Funk Shun,
Patti Smith,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Flag,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Surgeon,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.