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 Mali and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the crunk 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pole,
The Cramps,
Public Image Ltd.,
Section 25,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rhythm & Sound,
Juan Atkins,
John Foxx,
the Soft Cell,
Brass Construction,
New York Dolls,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Japan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Au Pairs,
FM Einheit,
Eve St. Jones,
Eric Copeland,
Man Parrish,
U.S. Maple,
Black Pus,
Scientists,
John Cale,
Camberwell Now,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Litter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Hill,
Scrapy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Stockholm Monsters,
Glenn Branca,
Surgeon,
Robert Hood,
Banda Bassotti,
Excepter,
Iggy Pop,
Audionom,
The Residents,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eden Ahbez,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Angels of Light,
The Moleskins,
Josef K,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Shoche,
Erykah Badu,
Terrestrial Tones,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mo-Dettes,
Marc Almond,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.