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 Morocco and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lagos.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Model 500 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Busters,
Lindisfarne,
Skaos,
Crash Course in Science,
The Moody Blues,
Sandy B,
The Last Poets,
Barclay James Harvest,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Green,
Alice Coltrane,
DNA,
Goldenarms,
The Sonics,
Unrelated Segments,
Joensuu 1685,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Visage,
Massinfluence,
The Doors,
Kerri Chandler,
Sound Behaviour,
LL Cool J,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sun City Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
Ponytail,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter and Kerry,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Thee Headcoats,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Toni Rubio,
Ohio Players,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Blues Magoos,
Lebanon Hanover,
Michelle Simonal,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Stooges,
Can,
The Beau Brummels,
Kayak,
The Fire Engines,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Offenders,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minor Threat,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
MDC,
The Sound,
The Black Dice,
Make Up,
Desert Stars,
Newcleus,
Gichy Dan,
Todd Terry,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.