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 Brazil and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the grunge 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Essential Logic,
Iggy Pop,
Flipper,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Archie Shepp,
Gastr Del Sol,
Slick Rick,
Lower 48,
U.S. Maple,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sonics,
The United States of America,
Soft Cell,
Black Bananas,
Isaac Hayes,
Eddi Front,
Scientists,
Vladislav Delay,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Qualms,
Cheater Slicks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
James White and The Blacks,
Gang Starr,
Crash Course in Science,
Hasil Adkins,
Anthony Braxton,
Echospace,
Shoche,
Stiv Bators,
The Angels of Light,
Pylon,
The Names,
Cal Tjader,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Loose Ends,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed,
Donny Hathaway,
Faust,
Babytalk,
The Seeds,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Judy Mowatt,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Massinfluence,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Smiths,
Animal Collective,
The Gap Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
8 Eyed Spy,
Skaos,
Circle Jerks,
The Gladiators,
Laurel Aitken,
Gichy Dan,
Terry Callier,
The Black Dice,
Amon Düül,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.