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 Belgium and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 Junior Murvin to the punk 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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
KRS-One,
Smog,
Kerri Chandler,
Japan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bobby Womack,
Ten City,
Circle Jerks,
Anthony Braxton,
Girls At Our Best!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Bobby Byrd,
Carl Craig,
OOIOO,
Terry Callier,
The Skatalites,
Sunsets and Hearts,
UT,
The Pretty Things,
Talk Talk,
Dorothy Ashby,
Laurel Aitken,
Agent Orange,
Marcia Griffiths,
Babytalk,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Toasters,
The Last Poets,
Sonic Youth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Moleskins,
Thompson Twins,
Aural Exciters,
The Velvet Underground,
Albert Ayler,
Duran Duran,
Public Enemy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wings,
Sam Rivers,
Scott Walker,
Wasted Youth,
Rod Modell,
Roy Ayers,
Shoche,
Lightning Bolt,
Alphaville,
Whodini,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Monochrome Set,
Camberwell Now,
Sight & Sound,
John Cale,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Maleditus Sound,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.