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 Tonga and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Brick to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Alice Coltrane,
Newcleus,
LL Cool J,
Zapp,
Iggy Pop,
Organ,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marine Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Erykah Badu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Oblivians,
Radiohead,
Ituana,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cecil Taylor,
The Busters,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pere Ubu,
Adolescents,
Wings,
Aural Exciters,
Clear Light,
Joe Smooth,
Banda Bassotti,
The Moleskins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Derrick May,
The Slackers,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fuzztones,
ABBA,
The Smoke,
Mark Hollis,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alison Limerick,
The Invisible,
Archie Shepp,
Godley & Creme,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Association,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barrington Levy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cybotron,
Ten City,
Man Parrish,
Groovy Waters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Albert Ayler,
The Cowsills,
Lightning Bolt,
Au Pairs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Negative Approach,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.