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 Turkmenistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar 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 Agent Orange to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Matthew Bourne,
Yellowson,
Jimmy McGriff,
David Bowie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unrelated Segments,
Easy Going,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Five Americans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lightning Bolt,
Eddi Front,
Junior Murvin,
Grandmaster Flash,
X-Ray Spex,
Stetsasonic,
Hardrive,
Harry Pussy,
The Red Krayola,
Au Pairs,
Black Pus,
Bootsy Collins,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeff Lynne,
Jawbox,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wolf Eyes,
Pantytec,
In Retrospect,
B.T. Express,
Amon Düül II,
The Cramps,
Isaac Hayes,
Average White Band,
The New Christs,
Quando Quango,
Patti Smith,
Massinfluence,
Roxy Music,
Sexual Harrassment,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bill Near,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Suicide,
Sam Rivers,
The Wake,
Buzzcocks,
New Age Steppers,
The Names,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gichy Dan,
Mars,
The Human League,
Spoonie Gee,
The Cowsills,
Negative Approach,
Amazonics,
Fugazi,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.