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 Mongolia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Skaos to the dance 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 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?
Babytalk,
Amazonics,
Bad Manners,
Hoover,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
10cc,
Radiohead,
Vainqueur,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
Reuben Wilson,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Graham Central Station,
Roxette,
Janne Schatter,
Scott Walker,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Unrelated Segments,
Tears for Fears,
Unwound,
The Mojo Men,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kas Product,
Robert Hood,
Rekid,
Eurythmics,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Darondo,
Cal Tjader,
In Retrospect,
Bluetip,
Soulsonic Force,
Minutemen,
Average White Band,
The Saints,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mandrill,
Blossom Toes,
Scientists,
Lalann,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lebanon Hanover,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Robert Wyatt,
Lower 48,
New Order,
Bauhaus,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gichy Dan,
Wally Richardson,
Surgeon,
Lungfish,
The Stooges,
Joy Division,
Roxy Music,
Khruangbin,
Sister Nancy,
James White and The Blacks,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.