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 France and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Spandau Ballet to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Pussy Galore,
Groovy Waters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Swell Maps,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dead Boys,
Gil Scott Heron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bush Tetras,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kenny Larkin,
Roxette,
John Holt,
Charles Mingus,
Fela Kuti,
Ice-T,
Tomorrow,
Blancmange,
Morten Harket,
Das Ding,
Delta 5,
MDC,
Neu!,
Fugazi,
Scott Walker,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Glenn Branca,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Sonics,
Aaron Thompson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Spandau Ballet,
Main Source,
Lower 48,
The Sound,
Brass Construction,
The Gun Club,
Monolake,
Sandy B,
Pagans,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scrapy,
Adolescents,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ornette Coleman,
Au Pairs,
Fluxion,
Depeche Mode,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
One Last Wish,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Music Machine,
Skaos,
Derrick Morgan,
Rapeman,
F. McDonald,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.