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 Honduras and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Amazonics to the grime 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 Severed Heads. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eurythmics,
Aaron Thompson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Accadde A,
Procol Harum,
Nils Olav,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Fall,
Y Pants,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
Sister Nancy,
Ohio Players,
Qualms,
Wasted Youth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Easy Going,
Rotary Connection,
World's Most,
Outsiders,
Flamin' Groovies,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Human League,
The Young Rascals,
Tomorrow,
The Gories,
Bobby Byrd,
Boredoms,
The Buckinghams,
Sun City Girls,
Jimmy McGriff,
PIL,
Monks,
The Vogues,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Arcadia,
Piero Umiliani,
Pere Ubu,
Roger Hodgson,
Toni Rubio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rufus Thomas,
Yaz,
Lebanon Hanover,
B.T. Express,
Japan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Inner City,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Swans,
Kenny Larkin,
Crispian St. Peters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Standells,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.