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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Massinfluence to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Robert Görl,
Marine Girls,
Mo-Dettes,
Matthew Halsall,
Soul Sonic Force,
Junior Murvin,
Juan Atkins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Joyce Sims,
The Tremeloes,
Max Romeo,
Buzzcocks,
Terry Callier,
Bill Wells,
Visage,
Laurel Aitken,
Fela Kuti,
The Electric Prunes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Animal Collective,
The Golliwogs,
The Walker Brothers,
Brothers Johnson,
EPMD,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fuzztones,
Wings,
Charles Mingus,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Doors,
Prince Buster,
Khruangbin,
The Gun Club,
Main Source,
Fad Gadget,
The Cure,
Cybotron,
Jeff Lynne,
June Days,
Tubeway Army,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Busters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
These Immortal Souls,
The Slits,
Deadbeat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mantronix,
The Detroit Cobras,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Wire,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mr. Review,
Public Image Ltd.,
Q and Not U,
Masters at Work,
Crispy Ambulance,
48th St. Collective,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
T.S.O.L.,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.