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 Malaysia and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ 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 Funky Four + One to the dance 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sight & Sound,
David Bowie,
FM Einheit,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Gladiators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The United States of America,
The Blackbyrds,
Interpol,
Boz Scaggs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Banda Bassotti,
The Real Kids,
PIL,
CMW,
48th St. Collective,
The Cowsills,
World's Most,
F. McDonald,
The Mummies,
Inner City,
Iggy Pop,
Idris Muhammad,
Michelle Simonal,
Youth Brigade,
Loose Ends,
The Slits,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Pretty Things,
Gregory Isaacs,
Chris & Cosey,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tubeway Army,
Jerry's Kids,
Blossom Toes,
Traffic Nightmare,
T.S.O.L.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare,
Hashim,
Derrick Morgan,
Absolute Body Control,
Sparks,
Connie Case,
Donald Byrd,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Model 500,
The Sound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Alphaville,
Stiv Bators,
Cameo,
Joensuu 1685,
Lucky Dragons,
Mad Mike,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana.
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.