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 Chile and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 Toronto and Milan.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
Ituana,
Donald Byrd,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Remains,
Toni Rubio,
Peter & Gordon,
Hashim,
Robert Görl,
Bronski Beat,
Davy DMX,
China Crisis,
Bootsy Collins,
Malaria!,
Babytalk,
Skaos,
Robert Wyatt,
Soft Cell,
Dead Boys,
Pylon,
Metal Thangz,
Supertramp,
Joey Negro,
Quando Quango,
Bobby Sherman,
Television Personalities,
Rekid,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
X-102,
The Knickerbockers,
Bauhaus,
Eli Mardock,
Essential Logic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fatback Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Human League,
Average White Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gerry Rafferty,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Durutti Column,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pantytec,
Buzzcocks,
Spoonie Gee,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Juan Atkins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Moody Blues,
Joe Finger,
the Human League,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Move,
The Last Poets,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mr. Review,
Lou Christie,
Camouflage,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.