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 Ghana and from Lyon.
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 Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nirvana to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Dennis Brown,
Fatback Band,
Swell Maps,
The Motions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Blackbyrds,
Barrington Levy,
Loose Ends,
Barry Ungar,
Negative Approach,
Minor Threat,
Tubeway Army,
Iggy Pop,
The Knickerbockers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Das Ding,
Michelle Simonal,
Nas,
Crooked Eye,
Rotary Connection,
Skaos,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Aloha Tigers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Cramps,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rites of Spring,
Symarip,
JFA,
The Vogues,
Mr. Review,
One Last Wish,
AZ,
Dark Day,
David Bowie,
Lightning Bolt,
the Swans,
The Young Rascals,
Roxette,
Grey Daturas,
Scrapy,
Stiv Bators,
Essential Logic,
Hashim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Echospace,
Thompson Twins,
Bizarre Inc.,
Wasted Youth,
Ornette Coleman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Erasure,
Theoretical Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Happenings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.