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 Mongolia and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Michelle Simonal to the funk 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Susan Cadogan,
X-101,
Arcadia,
Bronski Beat,
PIL,
Scott Walker,
Mantronix,
ABC,
Joe Finger,
Agitation Free,
Marshall Jefferson,
Tommy Roe,
The Invisible,
Interpol,
Barrington Levy,
Wally Richardson,
Black Moon,
Loose Ends,
Ken Boothe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
Japan,
Joy Division,
Kaleidoscope,
Buzzcocks,
Lakeside,
Q65,
Au Pairs,
Mark Hollis,
Inner City,
Animal Collective,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minor Threat,
The Skatalites,
E-Dancer,
Public Enemy,
Dennis Brown,
Pussy Galore,
Angry Samoans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bad Manners,
Robert Wyatt,
Massinfluence,
Lucky Dragons,
the Bar-Kays,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jacob Miller,
Spandau Ballet,
Freddie Wadling,
The Knickerbockers,
Magazine,
Audionom,
Groovy Waters,
Lou Reed,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Josef K,
Technova,
Malaria!,
Gang Green,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.