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 Turkey and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian 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 Walker Brothers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ronan,
The Star Department,
Negative Approach,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Juan Atkins,
Cal Tjader,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Connie Case,
Marshall Jefferson,
Groovy Waters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Banda Bassotti,
Minutemen,
The Alarm Clocks,
Amazonics,
Deepchord,
Khruangbin,
Bobby Womack,
Wally Richardson,
Mission of Burma,
Adolescents,
Crispian St. Peters,
Amon Düül II,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kayak,
Ronnie Foster,
Swell Maps,
Television,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barry Ungar,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scientists,
Black Pus,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lungfish,
Q65,
Lou Christie,
Scan 7,
Nils Olav,
Laurel Aitken,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Isaac Hayes,
Hoover,
Hasil Adkins,
Lucky Dragons,
DNA,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Intrusion,
Tears for Fears,
Black Sheep,
Main Source,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.