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 Bolivia and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Freddie Wadling to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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?
The Techniques,
John Cale,
Matthew Halsall,
Robert Görl,
Kerri Chandler,
Eden Ahbez,
The Smiths,
Shuggie Otis,
Howard Jones,
The Tremeloes,
Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crime,
T. Rex,
Gong,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sound Behaviour,
Brick,
Sex Pistols,
Main Source,
These Immortal Souls,
The Sound,
Joe Smooth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Cowsills,
Au Pairs,
Suburban Knight,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Anakelly,
Byron Stingily,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Curtis Mayfield,
Minnie Riperton,
Subhumans,
PIL,
Q65,
The Knickerbockers,
Niagra,
The Martian,
Hoover,
Janne Schatter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
This Heat,
DJ Style,
Slave,
CMW,
Kurtis Blow,
Zero Boys,
Essential Logic,
Moby Grape,
Dave Gahan,
Magma,
Marine Girls,
Crash Course in Science,
Steve Hackett,
Barclay James Harvest,
Drexciya,
Half Japanese,
Eddi Front,
Letta Mbulu,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.