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 Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Deepchord to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Yusef Lateef,
Von Mondo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sister Nancy,
Alice Coltrane,
Dennis Brown,
Bad Manners,
Ralphi Rosario,
Animal Collective,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ituana,
The Selecter,
Ludus,
Ken Boothe,
U.S. Maple,
Unrelated Segments,
Eli Mardock,
New Age Steppers,
Soul II Soul,
Brothers Johnson,
Blake Baxter,
The Monks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New York Dolls,
Simply Red,
Cheater Slicks,
Ultra Naté,
Donny Hathaway,
Robert Wyatt,
Dark Day,
One Last Wish,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tres Demented,
Hoover,
Joensuu 1685,
Pole,
Carl Craig,
The Standells,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed,
Con Funk Shun,
China Crisis,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Moleskins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The New Christs,
Jeff Mills,
Angry Samoans,
The Trojans,
Susan Cadogan,
Jacques Brel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Babytalk,
Royal Trux,
Excepter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Girls At Our Best!,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.