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 Japan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kerri Chandler to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flash Fearless,
Kurtis Blow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quantec,
Ronnie Foster,
Unrelated Segments,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Martian,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Glenn Branca,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Quando Quango,
Tomorrow,
Marcia Griffiths,
Franke,
Lalann,
Barrington Levy,
The Index,
The Gladiators,
Lindisfarne,
Piero Umiliani,
The New Christs,
The Standells,
Swans,
Aaron Thompson,
AZ,
Arcadia,
Scion,
Graham Central Station,
LL Cool J,
Dorothy Ashby,
The J.B.'s,
Fugazi,
Roxette,
The Fire Engines,
Qualms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Roxy Music,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Avey Tare,
Ultimate Spinach,
Q and Not U,
Ken Boothe,
Scratch Acid,
Fat Boys,
World's Most,
The Fuzztones,
Heaven 17,
Lou Christie,
Joey Negro,
Robert Görl,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tears for Fears,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pere Ubu,
Motorama,
Severed Heads,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.