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 Oman and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar 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 10cc to the grime 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
the Sonics,
New Age Steppers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ten City,
Laurel Aitken,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
June Days,
Y Pants,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Hot Snakes,
Half Japanese,
Cymande,
Rosa Yemen,
Bang On A Can,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jandek,
The Stooges,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Essential Logic,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Delta 5,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Quadrant,
Con Funk Shun,
Joensuu 1685,
Saccharine Trust,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cheater Slicks,
Chris Corsano,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Porter Ricks,
Soft Cell,
Ohio Players,
The Shadows of Knight,
Country Teasers,
Urselle,
Marcia Griffiths,
Danielle Patucci,
Flamin' Groovies,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alton Ellis,
Gil Scott Heron,
Heaven 17,
Darondo,
Oblivians,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Moss Icon,
Blancmange,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tommy Roe,
Fluxion,
The Searchers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Offenders,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.