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 Maldives and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and London.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eden Ahbez to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Hasil Adkins,
AZ,
Essential Logic,
Fad Gadget,
Vainqueur,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Schoolly D,
Johnny Clarke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
New Order,
Al Stewart,
Public Enemy,
the Soft Cell,
Lakeside,
MDC,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Angels of Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bluetip,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aloha Tigers,
Soul II Soul,
Dawn Penn,
Archie Shepp,
Joey Negro,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultravox,
Average White Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
ABC,
Jacob Miller,
Lightning Bolt,
Deakin,
The Wake,
Qualms,
The Litter,
Minutemen,
The Selecter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Darondo,
Bob Dylan,
Eric Dolphy,
Swans,
Prince Buster,
Man Parrish,
Bill Near,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Black Sheep,
The Pretty Things,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Shoche,
Bronski Beat,
Jacques Brel,
Todd Terry,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Guru Guru,
X-Ray Spex,
Sex Pistols,
Von Mondo,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.