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 Netherlands and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Sonics to the techno 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Neon Judgement,
Howard Jones,
Scrapy,
Flash Fearless,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Josef K,
Eve St. Jones,
Stiv Bators,
Pierre Henry,
Trumans Water,
Main Source,
Yaz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Metal Thangz,
Los Fastidios,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Lynne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Fire Engines,
Man Parrish,
Lakeside,
Lower 48,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Seeds,
Girls At Our Best!,
Motorama,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
CMW,
Janne Schatter,
Visage,
Altered Images,
Mars,
Andrew Hill,
Ken Boothe,
Toni Rubio,
Mark Hollis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Shadows of Knight,
Graham Central Station,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rotary Connection,
Index,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Junior Murvin,
B.T. Express,
FM Einheit,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cecil Taylor,
The Gories,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joy Division,
Ronnie Foster,
Albert Ayler,
Duran Duran,
Thompson Twins,
Sex Pistols,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.