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 Dominican Republic and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rock 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer 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 theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Matthew Bourne,
the Sonics,
Godley & Creme,
Rites of Spring,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Chris & Cosey,
The Monochrome Set,
One Last Wish,
Second Layer,
Black Sheep,
New York Dolls,
Scratch Acid,
Pole,
Patti Smith,
Black Flag,
Nirvana,
China Crisis,
Ultra Naté,
Boredoms,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sex Pistols,
David Bowie,
Brass Construction,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Stooges,
Idris Muhammad,
Joe Smooth,
Nik Kershaw,
Heaven 17,
Underground Resistance,
The Fugs,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Litter,
The Cramps,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Iggy Pop,
Lower 48,
Clear Light,
the Soft Cell,
DJ Sneak,
Todd Terry,
Con Funk Shun,
Unwound,
The Fire Engines,
Lindisfarne,
T. Rex,
Jacques Brel,
Panda Bear,
A Certain Ratio,
The Seeds,
Angry Samoans,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.