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 Solomon Islands and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Dead Boys,
Fela Kuti,
Basic Channel,
Eve St. Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Rundgren,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
LL Cool J,
Suicide,
Ultravox,
Mo-Dettes,
The Last Poets,
Carl Craig,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Alison Limerick,
The Grass Roots,
Albert Ayler,
Jeff Lynne,
Sound Behaviour,
Scratch Acid,
Pulsallama,
The Evens,
Unwound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Leonard Cohen,
The New Christs,
Smog,
The Associates,
the Slits,
E-Dancer,
Bush Tetras,
The Barracudas,
Arthur Verocai,
Glambeats Corp.,
Slick Rick,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Danielle Patucci,
Gichy Dan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Television Personalities,
Dennis Brown,
Max Romeo,
Brand Nubian,
Yellowson,
The Happenings,
Patti Smith,
Dave Gahan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marvin Gaye,
Delta 5,
The Real Kids,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
F. McDonald,
The Smoke,
The Velvet Underground,
Lightning Bolt,
JFA,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.