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 Belgium and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Yaz to the rock 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Michelle Simonal,
Scan 7,
Yaz,
Newcleus,
Eurythmics,
Carl Craig,
Patti Smith,
The Divine Comedy,
Intrusion,
Stiv Bators,
Joyce Sims,
Parry Music,
Dorothy Ashby,
Monolake,
The Evens,
Dawn Penn,
Pet Shop Boys,
8 Eyed Spy,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang Starr,
Symarip,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Peter & Gordon,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Soft Cell,
The Dead C,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Half Japanese,
Absolute Body Control,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Gap Band,
Shoche,
The Fortunes,
Archie Shepp,
Gang of Four,
The Gories,
June Days,
The Selecter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronnie Foster,
Donald Byrd,
Sam Rivers,
Man Parrish,
Fatback Band,
Blake Baxter,
Minor Threat,
the Bar-Kays,
Smog,
Camberwell Now,
Lalo Schifrin,
D'Angelo,
Youth Brigade,
Scott Walker,
Royal Trux,
Neil Young,
The Real Kids,
Deakin,
Amon Düül,
Quadrant,
The Pop Group,
Ralphi Rosario,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.