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 Turkmenistan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the electroclash 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Prince Buster,
Make Up,
Unwound,
This Heat,
Alison Limerick,
Ken Boothe,
Stiv Bators,
AZ,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The J.B.'s,
Black Pus,
Minny Pops,
the Association,
Oblivians,
China Crisis,
Panda Bear,
Dark Day,
Mantronix,
Tommy Roe,
Byron Stingily,
Camouflage,
Matthew Bourne,
Eric Copeland,
Eurythmics,
Deakin,
Interpol,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Adolescents,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Khruangbin,
Newcleus,
Scientists,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Associates,
Ronnie Foster,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Monks,
Japan,
KRS-One,
Quadrant,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Move,
The Electric Prunes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Pop Group,
Pagans,
Roxette,
Liliput,
World's Most,
Inner City,
MDC,
The Fugs,
Aural Exciters,
David McCallum,
Spandau Ballet,
Rotary Connection,
Swans,
Eve St. Jones,
The Velvet Underground,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.