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 Chad and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camouflage to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
The Evens,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Stiv Bators,
Franke,
Marc Almond,
Brick,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smiths,
Anakelly,
Erykah Badu,
The Gladiators,
Man Parrish,
Fugazi,
John Coltrane,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rites of Spring,
The Dead C,
John Holt,
Rosa Yemen,
Surgeon,
Kayak,
Bauhaus,
Duran Duran,
Heaven 17,
Sun Ra,
Supertramp,
L. Decosne,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Trojans,
Reuben Wilson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Rakim,
The Golliwogs,
La Düsseldorf,
The Mummies,
Youth Brigade,
Flipper,
Country Teasers,
Cal Tjader,
Japan,
Mark Hollis,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David McCallum,
Donny Hathaway,
Minutemen,
Arthur Verocai,
Niagra,
KRS-One,
The Walker Brothers,
Funkadelic,
Sandy B,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Infiniti,
Lalann,
Von Mondo,
FM Einheit,
Dual Sessions,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.