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 Togo and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe 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 Visage to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Black Dice,
Delta 5,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cramps,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Can,
Blake Baxter,
Ultra Naté,
PIL,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lalo Schifrin,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kayak,
Amon Düül,
Animal Collective,
The Mojo Men,
Warren Ellis,
Erykah Badu,
Second Layer,
Crispian St. Peters,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Red Krayola,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tropical Tobacco,
Gichy Dan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Prince Buster,
Derrick Morgan,
Barrington Levy,
The Evens,
Zapp,
Rufus Thomas,
Oblivians,
Andrew Hill,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Detroit Cobras,
Hot Snakes,
Pagans,
The Skatalites,
Malaria!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
The American Breed,
Metal Thangz,
Mission of Burma,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rites of Spring,
The Human League,
Qualms,
The Fall,
Talk Talk,
the Bar-Kays,
Faraquet,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.