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 Spain and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 snare 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the grime 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Bluetip,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Audionom,
The Pretty Things,
Michelle Simonal,
10cc,
Heaven 17,
K-Klass,
Brand Nubian,
The Litter,
The Victims,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kas Product,
Warren Ellis,
Pole,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Accadde A,
Black Sheep,
The Fire Engines,
Mars,
the Swans,
H. Thieme,
Gang Starr,
The Dead C,
Visage,
the Normal,
David Bowie,
Letta Mbulu,
LL Cool J,
Roy Ayers,
The Raincoats,
Sight & Sound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Agent Orange,
Roxy Music,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Zapp,
Sarah Menescal,
Simply Red,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pantytec,
Blossom Toes,
David McCallum,
Jerry's Kids,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
MDC,
Basic Channel,
Skriet,
Siglo XX,
The Golliwogs,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Toasters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Steve Hackett,
The Moody Blues,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ossler,
Black Pus,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth 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.