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 Latvia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sam Rivers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erykah Badu,
A Certain Ratio,
Flipper,
Ludus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
ABC,
Todd Rundgren,
Ten City,
Subhumans,
The Toasters,
Gil Scott Heron,
Porter Ricks,
Aaron Thompson,
Maurizio,
Nik Kershaw,
Moebius,
Severed Heads,
The Fuzztones,
Danielle Patucci,
Pere Ubu,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Happenings,
Eve St. Jones,
Television Personalities,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang Starr,
Amazonics,
Agent Orange,
Hashim,
Basic Channel,
Todd Terry,
The Skatalites,
LL Cool J,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bronski Beat,
Funkadelic,
Eli Mardock,
Kas Product,
The Velvet Underground,
Spandau Ballet,
Nick Fraelich,
Procol Harum,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joyce Sims,
The Victims,
This Heat,
Bob Dylan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stereo Dub,
Unrelated Segments,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
CMW,
The Moody Blues,
Marine Girls,
Robert Wyatt,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.