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 Greece and from Manchester.
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 Tokyo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the rock 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
June of 44,
Zero Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Warsaw,
Aloha Tigers,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Doors,
Boredoms,
Minnie Riperton,
Audionom,
Slick Rick,
Wasted Youth,
Qualms,
Archie Shepp,
L. Decosne,
The Fuzztones,
Adolescents,
Johnny Clarke,
Zapp,
Marvin Gaye,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cymande,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Blossom Toes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soft Machine,
Desert Stars,
Juan Atkins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Hot Snakes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Divine Comedy,
T.S.O.L.,
Sparks,
Amazonics,
The Move,
Supertramp,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Funky Four + One,
Subhumans,
Terry Callier,
Barbara Tucker,
Davy DMX,
The Neon Judgement,
Jacob Miller,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sällskapet,
Lou Christie,
Electric Prunes,
Ponytail,
Pantaleimon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rosa Yemen,
The Smiths,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.