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 Guyana and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Television to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Eric Dolphy,
Pylon,
Loose Ends,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Liliput,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eric Copeland,
Rotary Connection,
PIL,
Popol Vuh,
Mad Mike,
Pulsallama,
Don Cherry,
Black Sheep,
Tears for Fears,
The Gladiators,
Morten Harket,
Peter and Kerry,
Bad Manners,
Sixth Finger,
The Pop Group,
Toni Rubio,
Saccharine Trust,
The Skatalites,
JFA,
Rosa Yemen,
The Star Department,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
FM Einheit,
T. Rex,
8 Eyed Spy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Swans,
Marine Girls,
Maleditus Sound,
Piero Umiliani,
Todd Terry,
Metal Thangz,
Mantronix,
Grey Daturas,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ultravox,
Scott Walker,
Easy Going,
H. Thieme,
Procol Harum,
the Human League,
Dead Boys,
The Monochrome Set,
Adolescents,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Happenings,
Cheater Slicks,
The Searchers,
Eli Mardock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.