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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Johannesburg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sexual Harrassment to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cure. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
The Stooges,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Donald Byrd,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Durutti Column,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas,
Oblivians,
The Techniques,
Jacob Miller,
Joensuu 1685,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cosmic Jokers,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-101,
Livin' Joy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Pretty Things,
Lucky Dragons,
Ultra Naté,
The J.B.'s,
Soft Cell,
Symarip,
Pulsallama,
Soul Sonic Force,
Heaven 17,
Albert Ayler,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camberwell Now,
Carl Craig,
Junior Murvin,
One Last Wish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tubeway Army,
The Searchers,
The Golliwogs,
The Invisible,
The Moleskins,
Bronski Beat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bauhaus,
Main Source,
Sister Nancy,
Popol Vuh,
The Monochrome Set,
Lower 48,
The Grass Roots,
Marine Girls,
Trumans Water,
Isaac Hayes,
KRS-One,
Stetsasonic,
Ornette Coleman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The New Christs,
Hardrive,
Lebanon Hanover,
CMW,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.