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 Belgium and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Bad Manners to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Ituana,
Black Flag,
Circle Jerks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joyce Sims,
Stiv Bators,
Los Fastidios,
Funkadelic,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bill Near,
Jandek,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Deepchord,
Sister Nancy,
Essential Logic,
Al Stewart,
The Moleskins,
Matthew Halsall,
Kas Product,
The Shadows of Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mad Mike,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Adolescents,
Ice-T,
Monks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mary Jane Girls,
Guru Guru,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dark Day,
T. Rex,
Scan 7,
FM Einheit,
Tim Buckley,
Metal Thangz,
Second Layer,
U.S. Maple,
Talk Talk,
The Velvet Underground,
X-102,
Yusef Lateef,
Heaven 17,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Young Rascals,
10cc,
Procol Harum,
Oblivians,
Dawn Penn,
The Zeros,
The Last Poets,
Donny Hathaway,
Dave Gahan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Parry Music,
Supertramp,
Drexciya,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.