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 Belize and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Isaac Hayes,
New Age Steppers,
Rites of Spring,
Minutemen,
Amon Düül II,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
China Crisis,
Dead Boys,
David Axelrod,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Soft Cell,
Quando Quango,
Ten City,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Skriet,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The United States of America,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Liliput,
Derrick May,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Junior Murvin,
Absolute Body Control,
Au Pairs,
Warsaw,
Jeff Lynne,
Thompson Twins,
CMW,
Archie Shepp,
New York Dolls,
Whodini,
Sun City Girls,
Bob Dylan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Wolf Eyes,
Panda Bear,
The Five Americans,
Steve Hackett,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Glenn Branca,
Vladislav Delay,
The Toasters,
Yellowson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Janne Schatter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Black Sheep,
Ronan,
Soft Cell,
Camberwell Now,
Shoche,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rapeman,
Anthony Braxton,
K-Klass,
Kurtis Blow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.