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 Nigeria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Matthew Halsall to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Sonic Youth,
Tom Boy,
Hot Snakes,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Archie Shepp,
Surgeon,
Chrome,
Pantaleimon,
Ponytail,
Lindisfarne,
Pierre Henry,
a-ha,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Glenn Branca,
Trumans Water,
Lalann,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Wasted Youth,
AZ,
Ossler,
Barry Ungar,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Malaria!,
Organ,
Television Personalities,
Sam Rivers,
Thompson Twins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Porter Ricks,
Crooked Eye,
New Order,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rotary Connection,
Fear,
Warren Ellis,
The Smoke,
Make Up,
Godley & Creme,
Gil Scott Heron,
Minnie Riperton,
Harpers Bizarre,
Deakin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Delta 5,
The Fire Engines,
Minny Pops,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sun Ra,
Duran Duran,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Steve Hackett,
The Standells,
Terry Callier,
kango's stein massive,
Joe Finger,
Ice-T,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.