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 Barbados and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 a-ha to the rap 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Amon Düül,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mantronix,
Eli Mardock,
Al Stewart,
Joyce Sims,
Gang Starr,
Q65,
The Martian,
The Knickerbockers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Skarface,
Ronan,
Todd Rundgren,
Visage,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yellowson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Johnny Clarke,
Bobby Sherman,
Lalann,
Soulsonic Force,
Quando Quango,
Rekid,
Drexciya,
Television Personalities,
Gabor Szabo,
Davy DMX,
Bronski Beat,
Traffic Nightmare,
Glambeats Corp.,
Derrick May,
DJ Style,
Bauhaus,
Depeche Mode,
Minutemen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Delon & Dalcan,
Outsiders,
Massinfluence,
Dorothy Ashby,
Adolescents,
The American Breed,
Camouflage,
KRS-One,
Suburban Knight,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Warren Ellis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Skaos,
The Red Krayola,
Make Up,
Slick Rick,
Cecil Taylor,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Youth Brigade,
Radiohead,
Porter Ricks,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.