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 Andorra and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 PIL 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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Rakim,
B.T. Express,
OOIOO,
Section 25,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
JFA,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Stereo Dub,
Soulsonic Force,
Rekid,
The Buckinghams,
AZ,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Motorama,
Blake Baxter,
Talk Talk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camouflage,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Spoonie Gee,
Warren Ellis,
Hasil Adkins,
Public Enemy,
Japan,
Essential Logic,
Slick Rick,
Joy Division,
Lucky Dragons,
Gregory Isaacs,
Theoretical Girls,
LL Cool J,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Hood,
The Grass Roots,
Barry Ungar,
Lyres,
Avey Tare,
The Invisible,
Patti Smith,
Pierre Henry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Holt,
Cheater Slicks,
Freddie Wadling,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Alton Ellis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers,
The Stooges,
Henry Cow,
Crooked Eye,
Arthur Verocai,
Aural Exciters,
The Pretty Things,
Chrome,
Faust,
Rhythm & Sound,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.