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 Liechtenstein and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes 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 The Mojo Men to the funk 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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Josef K,
Silicon Teens,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eve St. Jones,
Livin' Joy,
Massinfluence,
The Dead C,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Japan,
The Cramps,
Adolescents,
Glenn Branca,
Amazonics,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oblivians,
Motorama,
Basic Channel,
Sixth Finger,
The Offenders,
Cheater Slicks,
Amon Düül,
Ossler,
The Flesh Eaters,
Smog,
Glambeats Corp.,
Harry Pussy,
Yusef Lateef,
Bootsy Collins,
Young Marble Giants,
Johnny Osbourne,
Chris & Cosey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
R.M.O.,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minutemen,
New Order,
Zapp,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Litter,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Moon,
the Normal,
PIL,
Kerrie Biddell,
H. Thieme,
Drexciya,
The Saints,
Ituana,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Toni Rubio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Birthday Party,
Soulsonic Force,
Bauhaus,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Moody Blues,
Albert Ayler,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Evens,
The Trojans,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.