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 Nepal and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Stiv Bators to the techno 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
kango's stein massive,
Ludus,
The Leaves,
Traffic Nightmare,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scratch Acid,
Theoretical Girls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Archie Shepp,
the Soft Cell,
New Age Steppers,
Barrington Levy,
Scott Walker,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fire Engines,
These Immortal Souls,
The Fugs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare,
Arthur Verocai,
Drexciya,
10cc,
Black Sheep,
Deakin,
Minnie Riperton,
Danielle Patucci,
Mars,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alison Limerick,
Electric Prunes,
Neu!,
Gang Green,
The Real Kids,
DNA,
Eve St. Jones,
Yusef Lateef,
The Techniques,
Cybotron,
Echospace,
Index,
Fear,
Rapeman,
Rotary Connection,
X-101,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Parry Music,
The Detroit Cobras,
Anthony Braxton,
Shuggie Otis,
Inner City,
Maurizio,
Q65,
Blancmange,
Suicide,
Tomorrow,
Wally Richardson,
Alton Ellis,
Popol Vuh,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.