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 Georgia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Thee Headcoats to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
China Crisis,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Robert Görl,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Offenders,
In Retrospect,
The Neon Judgement,
the Association,
Todd Terry,
The Shadows of Knight,
Byron Stingily,
Malaria!,
PIL,
Lou Christie,
Siglo XX,
Amon Düül II,
Sonic Youth,
Dark Day,
The Cramps,
Deepchord,
Morten Harket,
AZ,
Liliput,
Don Cherry,
Suicide,
FM Einheit,
Quantec,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jacques Brel,
June Days,
The Standells,
H. Thieme,
The Index,
The Monks,
The Dead C,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Slits,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Cowsills,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bill Wells,
Au Pairs,
The Fortunes,
The Victims,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ralphi Rosario,
Con Funk Shun,
Main Source,
The Human League,
Mantronix,
Underground Resistance,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.