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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
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 Eden Ahbez to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Audionom,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Au Pairs,
Cameo,
David McCallum,
Lebanon Hanover,
Index,
The Slits,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Germs,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Tremeloes,
Prince Buster,
Talk Talk,
Outsiders,
The Barracudas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Main Source,
Japan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Buckinghams,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Byron Stingily,
Frankie Knuckles,
X-Ray Spex,
Interpol,
Soul II Soul,
Severed Heads,
Eric Copeland,
Public Enemy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Minor Threat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Juan Atkins,
Unrelated Segments,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Monks,
Heaven 17,
Sugar Minott,
Underground Resistance,
Nirvana,
Minutemen,
The Vogues,
Scott Walker,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
CMW,
Grauzone,
John Holt,
Mars,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ituana,
Chris & Cosey,
Dawn Penn,
The Cure,
Boz Scaggs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane 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.