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 Chad and from Shanghai.
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 Mumbai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Yellowson to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ice-T,
The Smoke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Seeds,
New York Dolls,
Eddi Front,
Interpol,
Audionom,
The Fall,
Rosa Yemen,
Groovy Waters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Amon Düül,
Leonard Cohen,
Reagan Youth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Index,
Gang Green,
Technova,
The Smiths,
10cc,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Move,
Soft Machine,
Flash Fearless,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Silicon Teens,
Curtis Mayfield,
David Axelrod,
Cheater Slicks,
Sight & Sound,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ohio Players,
Gang of Four,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Piero Umiliani,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Talk Talk,
Iggy Pop,
Stiv Bators,
Inner City,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Gun Club,
Adolescents,
Tres Demented,
Eve St. Jones,
Livin' Joy,
Scientists,
Camouflage,
Pylon,
Mad Mike,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
FM Einheit,
Henry Cow,
Lightning Bolt,
Rites of Spring,
Althea and Donna,
Vainqueur,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.