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 Swaziland and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Half Japanese to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
The Fortunes,
E-Dancer,
Spandau Ballet,
Gang Starr,
Scan 7,
Accadde A,
The Sonics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Blackbyrds,
The Monochrome Set,
Neu!,
Public Image Ltd.,
Todd Rundgren,
The Five Americans,
The Skatalites,
Los Fastidios,
The Cramps,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Music Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Technova,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
New Order,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Grass Roots,
Newcleus,
K-Klass,
Cecil Taylor,
the Sonics,
H. Thieme,
Wasted Youth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Charles Mingus,
Hasil Adkins,
kango's stein massive,
A Certain Ratio,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
B.T. Express,
The Modern Lovers,
The Golliwogs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sällskapet,
Infiniti,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Spoonie Gee,
Archie Shepp,
Gil Scott Heron,
Basic Channel,
Moss Icon,
Y Pants,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fela Kuti,
Eric Dolphy,
The Angels of Light,
EPMD,
Ultra Naté,
the Normal,
Quantec,
Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore.
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.