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 Kuwait and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Faust to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Section 25,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultravox,
the Normal,
Bronski Beat,
Amon Düül,
The Saints,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fire Engines,
Ornette Coleman,
R.M.O.,
Eddi Front,
Guru Guru,
Neu!,
The Durutti Column,
Kayak,
Technova,
Subhumans,
Soft Cell,
Hot Snakes,
Derrick Morgan,
Scientists,
Ponytail,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nils Olav,
Laurel Aitken,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Spandau Ballet,
Malaria!,
Ituana,
Glenn Branca,
Spoonie Gee,
Lalann,
Soul II Soul,
Magazine,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Vainqueur,
The Stooges,
Arab on Radar,
Los Fastidios,
Agitation Free,
Niagra,
Chris Corsano,
Brick,
Freddie Wadling,
The Doors,
Adolescents,
Isaac Hayes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Boz Scaggs,
June of 44,
Ten City,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Grass Roots,
Funky Four + One,
Chrome,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.