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 Burkina and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 harpsichord 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 Funkadelic to the techno 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Das Ding,
Swell Maps,
Q and Not U,
The Monochrome Set,
Malaria!,
The Pretty Things,
The Modern Lovers,
Moebius,
Gabor Szabo,
The Gun Club,
Chris Corsano,
The Angels of Light,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fat Boys,
Arthur Verocai,
The Dirtbombs,
Cheater Slicks,
Tom Boy,
Neil Young,
Harmonia,
Sixth Finger,
John Holt,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Robert Wyatt,
Lucky Dragons,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Outsiders,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Television Personalities,
E-Dancer,
Iggy Pop,
Monks,
Desert Stars,
Sex Pistols,
The Doobie Brothers,
MDC,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Boredoms,
Yaz,
Fear,
The Gories,
CMW,
Amon Düül,
Gastr Del Sol,
Charles Mingus,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
The Happenings,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scratch Acid,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sonic Youth,
The Cowsills,
Niagra,
Tomorrow,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.