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 Lithuania and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Skaos,
Royal Trux,
Desert Stars,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Khruangbin,
Monks,
Maurizio,
Lightning Bolt,
The Music Machine,
Sällskapet,
Derrick May,
Mr. Review,
Sun City Girls,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Slits,
Sexual Harrassment,
The New Christs,
Porter Ricks,
Theoretical Girls,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed,
Derrick Morgan,
Oneida,
Morten Harket,
John Lydon,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Bar-Kays,
Jandek,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Red Krayola,
Lucky Dragons,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wasted Youth,
Stiv Bators,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Animal Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zero Boys,
The Birthday Party,
Hoover,
Bronski Beat,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brick,
Jerry's Kids,
Nik Kershaw,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Cowsills,
Scrapy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Youth Brigade,
David McCallum,
The Skatalites,
Davy DMX,
DNA,
Nas,
Johnny Osbourne,
ABBA,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.