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 Cyprus and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 808 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 Kas Product to the punk 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
The Remains,
Laurel Aitken,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mad Mike,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tubeway Army,
John Lydon,
Pole,
Amon Düül II,
Crooked Eye,
David Bowie,
Gong,
Johnny Clarke,
The Buckinghams,
Ice-T,
kango's stein massive,
Absolute Body Control,
Inner City,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roger Hodgson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
These Immortal Souls,
Crash Course in Science,
Flamin' Groovies,
Michelle Simonal,
Marmalade,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sight & Sound,
Rotary Connection,
The Sonics,
Brothers Johnson,
The Last Poets,
R.M.O.,
Schoolly D,
Scan 7,
The Barracudas,
The Fortunes,
Make Up,
Harry Pussy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Age Steppers,
Lyres,
Vladislav Delay,
Motorama,
Anthony Braxton,
B.T. Express,
Joe Smooth,
Delon & Dalcan,
Mr. Review,
The Gories,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cluster,
Dawn Penn,
Zapp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dave Gahan,
Hardrive,
The Skatalites,
Trumans Water,
Moebius,
Jeru the Damaja,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.