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 China and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Matthew Halsall,
John Cale,
New York Dolls,
Thee Headcoats,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nils Olav,
Newcleus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Essential Logic,
Silicon Teens,
Pulsallama,
Wolf Eyes,
Mantronix,
The Human League,
Faraquet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Sarah Menescal,
Sällskapet,
Arthur Verocai,
Tom Boy,
DNA,
Lou Christie,
Joensuu 1685,
Henry Cow,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Buzzcocks,
Bad Manners,
Funky Four + One,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gong,
Brand Nubian,
OOIOO,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Residents,
Traffic Nightmare,
Unrelated Segments,
Mark Hollis,
The Toasters,
The Electric Prunes,
Camouflage,
The Doors,
Boz Scaggs,
Carl Craig,
Theoretical Girls,
The Fortunes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Quadrant,
Rhythm & Sound,
Outsiders,
Masters at Work,
Blossom Toes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Mojo Men,
Gerry Rafferty,
Flash Fearless,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.