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 Nigeria and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the sitar 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 Buzzcocks to the punk 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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Nirvana,
Roger Hodgson,
Scion,
KRS-One,
The Zeros,
The Gun Club,
Flash Fearless,
The Litter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bad Manners,
Magma,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Quando Quango,
Main Source,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jandek,
Trumans Water,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Buckinghams,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yazoo,
Cluster,
Davy DMX,
Zero Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Sneak,
Wasted Youth,
Sixth Finger,
Lightning Bolt,
The Associates,
Boredoms,
Mandrill,
Guru Guru,
Robert Görl,
Whodini,
The Vogues,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Gladiators,
Gastr Del Sol,
Can,
Silicon Teens,
Aswad,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Todd Rundgren,
the Human League,
The Cure,
Chrome,
Crime,
This Heat,
Gang Green,
The Fuzztones,
The Golliwogs,
Blancmange,
Alison Limerick,
Sällskapet,
LL Cool J,
Rites of Spring,
Glenn Branca,
Black Pus,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dark Day,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.