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 Monaco and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
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 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 David Bowie 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 Arthur Verocai to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Warsaw,
Pantaleimon,
The Slackers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Funky Four + One,
The Moleskins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sandy B,
Ralphi Rosario,
Saccharine Trust,
Althea and Donna,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Mojo Men,
The Fall,
Ice-T,
Brand Nubian,
Lightning Bolt,
The Star Department,
The Evens,
Silicon Teens,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Byrd,
The Tremeloes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mandrill,
Jacob Miller,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Zeros,
Kas Product,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Soft Cell,
Bill Wells,
Vladislav Delay,
Massinfluence,
Lucky Dragons,
Deakin,
The Residents,
Pylon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Colin Newman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Terrestrial Tones,
Skriet,
Icehouse,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sonic Youth,
Niagra,
Newcleus,
Angry Samoans,
The Real Kids,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ultra Naté,
Quadrant,
Cheater Slicks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mantronix,
Brick,
Yazoo,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.