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 Germany 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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Bauhaus to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camouflage,
Niagra,
Trumans Water,
Rakim,
New York Dolls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Au Pairs,
Public Image Ltd.,
La Düsseldorf,
The Stooges,
Wire,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bill Near,
Organ,
Supertramp,
Inner City,
Surgeon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Anakelly,
The Invisible,
Dave Gahan,
Deadbeat,
Dual Sessions,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Leaves,
The Monks,
Main Source,
The Zeros,
Fluxion,
DJ Sneak,
Slave,
The Beau Brummels,
Second Layer,
Panda Bear,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Blake Baxter,
Dawn Penn,
Rufus Thomas,
Derrick May,
Brothers Johnson,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultra Naté,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bluetip,
Alice Coltrane,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sällskapet,
Massinfluence,
MDC,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Easy Going,
Sound Behaviour,
Pere Ubu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Shoche,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.