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 Korea North and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Calgary.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare 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 Donny Hathaway to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Adolescents,
Brick,
Derrick May,
Excepter,
Prince Buster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alphaville,
The Martian,
Ituana,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Deadbeat,
Schoolly D,
Reagan Youth,
Rotary Connection,
Chris Corsano,
Rufus Thomas,
Colin Newman,
The Kinks,
Sex Pistols,
Ohio Players,
Josef K,
Soulsonic Force,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
June Days,
Funky Four + One,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Knickerbockers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Audionom,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Vogues,
Bobby Sherman,
Rosa Yemen,
Unwound,
Andrew Hill,
Sister Nancy,
The Standells,
The Cramps,
Cybotron,
China Crisis,
Nils Olav,
The Stooges,
The Saints,
Scion,
Joe Smooth,
Delta 5,
The Slits,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ken Boothe,
Boz Scaggs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Velvet Underground,
The Monochrome Set,
Tim Buckley,
Cal Tjader,
The Victims,
Aaron Thompson,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.