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 Liberia and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 China Crisis to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lakeside,
Crispy Ambulance,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oneida,
Grey Daturas,
Brand Nubian,
The Star Department,
The Human League,
Bang On A Can,
Oblivians,
Fat Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Coltrane,
Sandy B,
The Victims,
Rufus Thomas,
Jandek,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Neu!,
Can,
John Foxx,
Guru Guru,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Lynne,
These Immortal Souls,
Letta Mbulu,
Graham Central Station,
Popol Vuh,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Easy Going,
Young Marble Giants,
The Knickerbockers,
Newcleus,
Scion,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blake Baxter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Reagan Youth,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Martian,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nas,
The Toasters,
Bobby Byrd,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fire Engines,
Yaz,
Tom Boy,
Harry Pussy,
Underground Resistance,
Ludus,
David Bowie,
Maleditus Sound,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.