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 Jamaica and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 EPMD to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Scott Walker,
Flipper,
Lungfish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Interpol,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aaron Thompson,
X-101,
The Human League,
The Barracudas,
The Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grauzone,
Television Personalities,
Easy Going,
Swell Maps,
Mandrill,
Mission of Burma,
U.S. Maple,
Pantytec,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Oneida,
Ponytail,
Skriet,
Buzzcocks,
Second Layer,
David McCallum,
Hot Snakes,
Cal Tjader,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Zero Boys,
The Fugs,
The Golliwogs,
the Human League,
Cecil Taylor,
Country Teasers,
Dennis Brown,
Surgeon,
T. Rex,
Trumans Water,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Robert Hood,
Fat Boys,
In Retrospect,
Marc Almond,
Essential Logic,
LL Cool J,
Rites of Spring,
The Electric Prunes,
OOIOO,
Frankie Knuckles,
Crooked Eye,
Groovy Waters,
Joyce Sims,
Mad Mike,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Television,
Sonic Youth,
Half Japanese,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.