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 Liechtenstein and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 June of 44 to the punk 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Laurel Aitken,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fuzztones,
Carl Craig,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
The Gladiators,
Aural Exciters,
The Slits,
Davy DMX,
Donald Byrd,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Flag,
Patti Smith,
The Human League,
Derrick May,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sandy B,
Hoover,
Matthew Halsall,
X-102,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Talk Talk,
Chris Corsano,
AZ,
Quantec,
Sällskapet,
Ponytail,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fear,
Tropical Tobacco,
June Days,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Stetsasonic,
Steve Hackett,
Groovy Waters,
Ludus,
Brass Construction,
Clear Light,
Country Joe & The Fish,
KRS-One,
One Last Wish,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ultravox,
Cameo,
Ossler,
Gang of Four,
Dual Sessions,
Eric Copeland,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Connie Case,
10cc,
Terrestrial Tones,
Agitation Free,
Big Daddy Kane,
Audionom,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.