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 Tonga and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 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 Piero Umiliani 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Skarface,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dawn Penn,
The Toasters,
10cc,
Fela Kuti,
Ronnie Foster,
Scientists,
Black Sheep,
Unwound,
The Slackers,
a-ha,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rosa Yemen,
Gang of Four,
Marc Almond,
Gregory Isaacs,
Au Pairs,
Panda Bear,
Mission of Burma,
Scrapy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Trumans Water,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flash Fearless,
James White and The Blacks,
Stetsasonic,
One Last Wish,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lindisfarne,
June of 44,
Gastr Del Sol,
Von Mondo,
Gabor Szabo,
Soft Cell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kas Product,
Bauhaus,
Max Romeo,
The Wake,
Alison Limerick,
Sister Nancy,
Moby Grape,
Lightning Bolt,
Dave Gahan,
Anthony Braxton,
Lyres,
Popol Vuh,
Donny Hathaway,
The Mojo Men,
Sällskapet,
Public Enemy,
Crispian St. Peters,
Audionom,
Letta Mbulu,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boz Scaggs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.