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 France 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Vladislav Delay to the funk 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minor Threat,
Robert Hood,
Massinfluence,
Bang On A Can,
Boz Scaggs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Soft Cell,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Görl,
Organ,
The Shadows of Knight,
Make Up,
James White and The Blacks,
The Count Five,
the Germs,
Surgeon,
The Fall,
Trumans Water,
Eli Mardock,
The Misunderstood,
Hasil Adkins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
CMW,
The Blackbyrds,
Rufus Thomas,
FM Einheit,
Babytalk,
Accadde A,
Darondo,
Agent Orange,
Wings,
Josef K,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marvin Gaye,
Jerry's Kids,
The Vogues,
Tubeway Army,
Letta Mbulu,
The Litter,
Danielle Patucci,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Public Enemy,
Visage,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jandek,
The Smiths,
Pylon,
Underground Resistance,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Radiohead,
Popol Vuh,
The Cure,
The Standells,
DJ Style,
Rekid,
Amon Düül II,
One Last Wish,
Amazonics,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.