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 Djibouti and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Todd Terry to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sister Nancy,
The Smoke,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Evens,
Sound Behaviour,
Soft Cell,
Moby Grape,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Judy Mowatt,
Jeff Lynne,
The Beau Brummels,
In Retrospect,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Busters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Au Pairs,
Ronan,
Grey Daturas,
The Electric Prunes,
MC5,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Gun Club,
Loose Ends,
Bill Near,
New Order,
Alice Coltrane,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ohio Players,
Henry Cow,
The Vogues,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thee Headcoats,
Gabor Szabo,
The Sonics,
Howard Jones,
The Pretty Things,
Joey Negro,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Qualms,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Infiniti,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Shadows of Knight,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soul Sonic Force,
Deadbeat,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Adolescents,
Jeff Mills,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Animal Collective,
Chrome,
Panda Bear,
Jacques Brel,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.