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 Latvia and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Leonard Cohen to the punk 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Mission of Burma,
Nas,
Blossom Toes,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fad Gadget,
The Knickerbockers,
The Music Machine,
Gabor Szabo,
Thompson Twins,
Donald Byrd,
Alton Ellis,
Matthew Halsall,
Young Marble Giants,
Outsiders,
The Gories,
Little Man,
The Raincoats,
Popol Vuh,
The Fall,
Alison Limerick,
Sexual Harrassment,
K-Klass,
The Blues Magoos,
Rufus Thomas,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tom Boy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scan 7,
Kenny Larkin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Durutti Column,
Gang Starr,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Laurel Aitken,
Erykah Badu,
Joey Negro,
Marmalade,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fatback Band,
Zero Boys,
OOIOO,
Basic Channel,
Rapeman,
Public Enemy,
Gong,
Funkadelic,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Fugs,
Matthew Bourne,
Brand Nubian,
Don Cherry,
Cluster,
Bizarre Inc.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Supertramp,
Porter Ricks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rites of Spring,
Amazonics,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.