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 Congo and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Anakelly to the rap 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jeff Lynne,
Skaos,
The Monochrome Set,
Soft Machine,
Aswad,
Goldenarms,
Bush Tetras,
Cheater Slicks,
Swans,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Barbara Tucker,
Peter and Kerry,
Ultra Naté,
Lalann,
The Blues Magoos,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Robert Görl,
Rotary Connection,
Von Mondo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Inner City,
Duran Duran,
Sam Rivers,
Lakeside,
The Sound,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Carl Craig,
Lee Hazlewood,
Vainqueur,
Mission of Burma,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dual Sessions,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Minor Threat,
Ralphi Rosario,
Radio Birdman,
The Monks,
Janne Schatter,
Piero Umiliani,
Public Enemy,
Monolake,
Average White Band,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hashim,
Ken Boothe,
Thompson Twins,
The Toasters,
the Human League,
Franke,
Wings,
FM Einheit,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.