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 Greece and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Goldenarms to the funk 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Evens,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fugs,
Nick Fraelich,
Delta 5,
Barrington Levy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
David Bowie,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tommy Roe,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Tim Buckley,
Dennis Brown,
Marine Girls,
Flipper,
Ludus,
kango's stein massive,
a-ha,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Move,
Faust,
David Axelrod,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Adolescents,
Dark Day,
Gang Starr,
Boredoms,
Infiniti,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Vogues,
Scan 7,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deakin,
Animal Collective,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Brass Construction,
The Remains,
Moss Icon,
Trumans Water,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dual Sessions,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultra Naté,
Sex Pistols,
Sällskapet,
Aaron Thompson,
Livin' Joy,
The Birthday Party,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Angry Samoans,
Echospace,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Music Machine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bauhaus,
Aloha Tigers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.