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 Japan and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Michelle Simonal,
Siglo XX,
The Gap Band,
Half Japanese,
The Sonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lucky Dragons,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Glenn Branca,
Jerry Gold Smith,
kango's stein massive,
Iggy Pop,
The Electric Prunes,
The Black Dice,
Mad Mike,
Donny Hathaway,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Motorama,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fluxion,
Aswad,
June Days,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Neu!,
The Vogues,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Johnny Clarke,
Lyres,
Altered Images,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pantaleimon,
Groovy Waters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eric Dolphy,
Thee Headcoats,
Peter & Gordon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Zapp,
The Skatalites,
Monks,
The American Breed,
Whodini,
T.S.O.L.,
Rites of Spring,
The Fugs,
The Trojans,
Ohio Players,
Lebanon Hanover,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magazine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Funky Four + One,
Harry Pussy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Kinks,
Letta Mbulu,
Rapeman,
Surgeon,
Los Fastidios,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.