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 Cambodia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Magma to the techno 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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Sparks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Blackbyrds,
Blancmange,
Fear,
Main Source,
Adolescents,
The Cowsills,
Freddie Wadling,
Simply Red,
Grauzone,
Dual Sessions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Godley & Creme,
The Gap Band,
Crime,
Ohio Players,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Audionom,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Maleditus Sound,
Scion,
Groovy Waters,
Visage,
Qualms,
Amon Düül,
A Certain Ratio,
Dennis Brown,
The United States of America,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Shoche,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Beau Brummels,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Q65,
The Smoke,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gladiators,
Kenny Larkin,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soul II Soul,
Con Funk Shun,
Joy Division,
The Monks,
Accadde A,
Angry Samoans,
Toni Rubio,
Arab on Radar,
Quando Quango,
AZ,
Laurel Aitken,
The Seeds,
The Neon Judgement,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
K-Klass,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.