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 Cameroon and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nick Fraelich,
kango's stein massive,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sonny Sharrock,
Whodini,
Technova,
Gang of Four,
The Leaves,
The Gun Club,
Banda Bassotti,
Ten City,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Toni Rubio,
Joy Division,
Stereo Dub,
Flipper,
Tom Boy,
Lucky Dragons,
48th St. Collective,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grey Daturas,
The Skatalites,
Adolescents,
Infiniti,
The Dead C,
X-101,
Boz Scaggs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crispy Ambulance,
Thee Headcoats,
Theoretical Girls,
B.T. Express,
Don Cherry,
Slave,
Man Eating Sloth,
JFA,
The Busters,
Letta Mbulu,
Au Pairs,
The Five Americans,
Donald Byrd,
Gabor Szabo,
The United States of America,
The Moleskins,
Accadde A,
The Martian,
Q65,
Smog,
Fluxion,
Section 25,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cure,
UT,
The Birthday Party,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Monks,
Goldenarms,
Stetsasonic,
Harmonia,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.