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 Moldova and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Cowsills to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grandmaster Flash,
China Crisis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Chris & Cosey,
Camouflage,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Babytalk,
Blossom Toes,
Ludus,
F. McDonald,
La Düsseldorf,
Andrew Hill,
Maleditus Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Fania All-Stars,
Icehouse,
Quando Quango,
Godley & Creme,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Angels of Light,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rod Modell,
The Smiths,
Ossler,
The Seeds,
Jacques Brel,
cv313,
The Birthday Party,
E-Dancer,
Lou Christie,
The Tremeloes,
Cymande,
Oblivians,
Popol Vuh,
The Monochrome Set,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scratch Acid,
Das Ding,
Dawn Penn,
Jacob Miller,
Soulsonic Force,
Newcleus,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gastr Del Sol,
Skarface,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
These Immortal Souls,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Flesh Eaters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Cale,
The Raincoats,
One Last Wish,
Lakeside,
EPMD,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.