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 Spain and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Delhi.
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 güiro 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 Tim Buckley to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Junior Murvin,
Kas Product,
Dead Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Zeros,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Sonics,
The Slits,
Hot Snakes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Harmonia,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Fire Engines,
The Invisible,
Toni Rubio,
Franke,
Porter Ricks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Index,
Matthew Bourne,
the Association,
Brass Construction,
Monks,
The Trojans,
John Lydon,
Howard Jones,
Technova,
Yellowson,
48th St. Collective,
the Swans,
Organ,
Niagra,
Radio Birdman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
Amon Düül II,
Cluster,
Mr. Review,
Wolf Eyes,
Grauzone,
Sixth Finger,
Laurel Aitken,
Anakelly,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Derrick Morgan,
The Move,
The Divine Comedy,
Joe Finger,
Bobby Womack,
Sonic Youth,
The Cowsills,
Suicide,
Sugar Minott,
Oneida,
Stereo Dub,
Kenny Larkin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.