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 Haiti and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 organ 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the jazz 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
Roxy Music,
Al Stewart,
Electric Prunes,
Symarip,
Bluetip,
Gang of Four,
Nik Kershaw,
Lalann,
Das Ding,
Aloha Tigers,
Vainqueur,
In Retrospect,
Anthony Braxton,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Alice Coltrane,
Michelle Simonal,
Josef K,
Quadrant,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Leaves,
Stockholm Monsters,
Freddie Wadling,
Pharoah Sanders,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Iggy Pop,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ken Boothe,
Joey Negro,
Ponytail,
Alphaville,
Dennis Brown,
Niagra,
One Last Wish,
Joy Division,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Black Flag,
Moebius,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Mo-Dettes,
John Foxx,
Subhumans,
Minny Pops,
Joe Finger,
Arab on Radar,
Magazine,
Parry Music,
Metal Thangz,
Minutemen,
David Axelrod,
Q and Not U,
Flipper,
David Bowie,
Colin Newman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
K-Klass,
Delta 5,
Gong,
The Fuzztones,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.