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 El Salvador and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Guru Guru to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Moby Grape,
Scott Walker,
Tubeway Army,
Mad Mike,
Dead Boys,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Dave Clark Five,
Slave,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joyce Sims,
Gichy Dan,
Erasure,
Carl Craig,
Bad Manners,
The Fire Engines,
Donald Byrd,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
This Heat,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Womack,
Franke,
The Pretty Things,
MC5,
Eve St. Jones,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stiv Bators,
The Buckinghams,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Last Poets,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David Axelrod,
Siglo XX,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Scrapy,
Mo-Dettes,
Bauhaus,
the Normal,
The Golliwogs,
Scratch Acid,
Chris Corsano,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flamin' Groovies,
L. Decosne,
Boredoms,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Underground Resistance,
Hot Snakes,
cv313,
LL Cool J,
Jeff Mills,
Graham Central Station,
The Durutti Column,
Agent Orange,
The Happenings,
Iggy Pop,
Cybotron,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.