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 Belize and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mumbai.
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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar 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 Soft Machine to the rap 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Los Fastidios,
Cal Tjader,
Electric Prunes,
Main Source,
Metal Thangz,
The Gun Club,
The Barracudas,
ABC,
Todd Rundgren,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
John Cale,
Sixth Finger,
Quadrant,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Model 500,
Tim Buckley,
Peter & Gordon,
David Bowie,
a-ha,
The Dirtbombs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
T.S.O.L.,
kango's stein massive,
Reuben Wilson,
Inner City,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Doors,
Excepter,
The Techniques,
Stiv Bators,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
John Lydon,
Brand Nubian,
Kayak,
Babytalk,
Franke,
Rufus Thomas,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Harmonia,
The Count Five,
Sonic Youth,
Magma,
R.M.O.,
Ponytail,
The J.B.'s,
Barry Ungar,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Duran Duran,
Judy Mowatt,
Sparks,
The Velvet Underground,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Robert Wyatt,
Nas,
Roxette,
Niagra,
Livin' Joy,
the Swans,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.