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 Honduras and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin 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 Ten City to the electroclash 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Cybotron,
Robert Wyatt,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Black Dice,
Alice Coltrane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alphaville,
Stereo Dub,
Oblivians,
Eden Ahbez,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kool Moe Dee,
Japan,
Reuben Wilson,
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J,
Mo-Dettes,
Ituana,
John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eurythmics,
The Residents,
Procol Harum,
Angry Samoans,
Underground Resistance,
Sällskapet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soft Machine,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Moss Icon,
Tubeway Army,
David McCallum,
Sonny Sharrock,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ultra Naté,
The Misunderstood,
Aaron Thompson,
Make Up,
the Swans,
Funkadelic,
Royal Trux,
Supertramp,
The Doors,
JFA,
Lalann,
Rotary Connection,
Soul II Soul,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Lydon,
Brass Construction,
The Slits,
E-Dancer,
Bill Wells,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Blues Magoos,
The Seeds,
Dawn Penn,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.