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 Slovakia 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 harpsichord 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 KRS-One to the electroclash 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dead C 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Angels of Light,
Stereo Dub,
The Fuzztones,
Moss Icon,
Danielle Patucci,
Skriet,
Television,
Sällskapet,
Davy DMX,
Symarip,
Fad Gadget,
Crash Course in Science,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Donny Hathaway,
MDC,
Drexciya,
Ice-T,
The Durutti Column,
The Pop Group,
Todd Terry,
Reuben Wilson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camouflage,
Althea and Donna,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Flag,
The Kinks,
Freddie Wadling,
Sun Ra,
Ituana,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pagans,
Chris & Cosey,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Magazine,
Slave,
Main Source,
Minor Threat,
Youth Brigade,
Cymande,
Ultra Naté,
Bootsy Collins,
The Stooges,
The Standells,
the Swans,
Eve St. Jones,
Juan Atkins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Steve Hackett,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Moby Grape,
Black Bananas,
Bad Manners,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Mojo Men,
Sonic Youth,
the Slits,
Robert Wyatt,
Jesper Dahlback,
La Düsseldorf,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.