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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum 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 Zero Boys to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Spoonie Gee,
The Mojo Men,
Rakim,
Adolescents,
Sarah Menescal,
Donald Byrd,
Ken Boothe,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fear,
Grauzone,
Hardrive,
John Foxx,
Sonic Youth,
Rotary Connection,
Joensuu 1685,
Deepchord,
Chris Corsano,
ABBA,
Moss Icon,
Juan Atkins,
Fugazi,
Black Flag,
The Blackbyrds,
Terry Callier,
The Dead C,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Association,
Robert Görl,
Moby Grape,
Scan 7,
Donny Hathaway,
Livin' Joy,
Faust,
The Evens,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Judy Mowatt,
Cybotron,
Nick Fraelich,
Roy Ayers,
Monks,
The Cramps,
Freddie Wadling,
Man Parrish,
the Fania All-Stars,
Drexciya,
Gang Starr,
Public Enemy,
T.S.O.L.,
Buzzcocks,
Q and Not U,
Marvin Gaye,
Kayak,
Zapp,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Index,
Erasure,
Average White Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.