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 Ghana and from London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mumbai.
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 theremin 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 Section 25 to the disco 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Joe Finger,
Lightning Bolt,
Zapp,
Minor Threat,
The Names,
Kerri Chandler,
Japan,
10cc,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mr. Review,
Eli Mardock,
Quadrant,
Infiniti,
The Golliwogs,
The J.B.'s,
Guru Guru,
Sex Pistols,
Piero Umiliani,
Cal Tjader,
Gabor Szabo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Beau Brummels,
Lou Christie,
Nirvana,
Deakin,
Pantaleimon,
Dennis Brown,
Zero Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ludus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
X-101,
The Doors,
New York Dolls,
Rapeman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Desert Stars,
The Knickerbockers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Subhumans,
Bill Wells,
Chris Corsano,
the Bar-Kays,
The American Breed,
Pantytec,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dave Gahan,
Television Personalities,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fear,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kurtis Blow,
Metal Thangz,
James White and The Blacks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Slave,
John Coltrane,
Joe Smooth,
Rakim,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.