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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 Goldenarms to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Robert Hood,
The Fall,
Bootsy Collins,
La Düsseldorf,
The J.B.'s,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Soft Cell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sparks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Spoonie Gee,
Pet Shop Boys,
Brand Nubian,
The Standells,
Camouflage,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Suburban Knight,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Womack,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Young Rascals,
The Star Department,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bill Near,
The Fortunes,
Skriet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thompson Twins,
Ronnie Foster,
Ultra Naté,
Stetsasonic,
Terry Callier,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Talk Talk,
Heaven 17,
The Invisible,
Joensuu 1685,
Leonard Cohen,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cybotron,
Eve St. Jones,
the Germs,
Derrick May,
KRS-One,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Negative Approach,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
John Coltrane,
One Last Wish,
Severed Heads,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Albert Ayler,
Metal Thangz,
Underground Resistance,
Siglo XX,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.