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 Maldives and from Delhi.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 theremin 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 Aswad to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Joe Smooth,
Sonic Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Stetsasonic,
David Bowie,
The Buckinghams,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Hashim,
The Names,
CMW,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Juan Atkins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Swell Maps,
David McCallum,
Banda Bassotti,
Slick Rick,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
UT,
The J.B.'s,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Dave Clark Five,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Human League,
Marc Almond,
Infiniti,
Sällskapet,
Massinfluence,
Cymande,
Pulsallama,
The Velvet Underground,
Joe Finger,
The Zeros,
Schoolly D,
The Moody Blues,
The Blackbyrds,
Severed Heads,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Nils Olav,
Adolescents,
Lee Hazlewood,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Godley & Creme,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bauhaus,
The Leaves,
Ronan,
Donald Byrd,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Chrome,
The Seeds,
The Pop Group,
The Gap Band,
Aswad,
T.S.O.L.,
Zero Boys,
Yellowson,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.