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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare 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 The Fall to the rock 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sandy B 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Duran Duran,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swans,
Marc Almond,
Kaleidoscope,
The Monochrome Set,
Wally Richardson,
Colin Newman,
Ronnie Foster,
Soul Sonic Force,
UT,
Wire,
X-102,
D'Angelo,
Unrelated Segments,
Susan Cadogan,
The Martian,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Sherman,
Reagan Youth,
Crime,
Eden Ahbez,
The Happenings,
Deepchord,
Godley & Creme,
The Gladiators,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fifty Foot Hose,
ABBA,
Funky Four + One,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joey Negro,
Joe Smooth,
The Moleskins,
Dennis Brown,
Donny Hathaway,
Archie Shepp,
the Germs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arcadia,
Aloha Tigers,
Yaz,
Roxy Music,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Toasters,
The Residents,
Bluetip,
Trumans Water,
Severed Heads,
Bootsy Collins,
R.M.O.,
Sonic Youth,
Alice Coltrane,
Cal Tjader,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Index,
The Birthday Party,
Crispian St. Peters,
Intrusion,
Brand Nubian,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.