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 Cape Verde and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Average White Band to the techno 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Aloha Tigers,
Scratch Acid,
Black Sheep,
Von Mondo,
The Human League,
Lou Christie,
10cc,
Gong,
Idris Muhammad,
MC5,
Derrick Morgan,
Jeff Lynne,
Whodini,
Nick Fraelich,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Searchers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
John Holt,
Rapeman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Newcleus,
Soft Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Blancmange,
Dawn Penn,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
R.M.O.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
JFA,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
June Days,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mark Hollis,
Altered Images,
Sugar Minott,
Harry Pussy,
Maleditus Sound,
Dark Day,
Marmalade,
Terry Callier,
the Soft Cell,
K-Klass,
The Walker Brothers,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Real Kids,
Eric B and Rakim,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Underground Resistance,
Lucky Dragons,
D'Angelo,
48th St. Collective,
Hasil Adkins,
The Monochrome Set,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lindisfarne,
Minor Threat,
Warsaw,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Television Personalities,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.