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 Jamaica and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Music Machine to the grime 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Busters,
Roxy Music,
Ten City,
Blossom Toes,
Al Stewart,
Jacques Brel,
Stereo Dub,
Public Enemy,
Bad Manners,
Grauzone,
Supertramp,
Thompson Twins,
The Motions,
The Detroit Cobras,
Radiohead,
Eric Dolphy,
Godley & Creme,
Silicon Teens,
Technova,
Wasted Youth,
10cc,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Tim Buckley,
Sex Pistols,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Music Machine,
Moss Icon,
David Bowie,
Joyce Sims,
Bill Wells,
Peter & Gordon,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Golliwogs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Blancmange,
Pole,
Marmalade,
Soft Machine,
Magazine,
Section 25,
The Victims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fugs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scrapy,
Sam Rivers,
A Certain Ratio,
Kenny Larkin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
La Düsseldorf,
Chris & Cosey,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Index,
This Heat,
Hardrive,
Lou Christie,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.