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 Uzbekistan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum 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 Deakin to the disco 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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
a-ha,
Icehouse,
Silicon Teens,
Alice Coltrane,
X-102,
Joensuu 1685,
Nico,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Fatback Band,
JFA,
Procol Harum,
Duran Duran,
The Standells,
Tomorrow,
10cc,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mars,
Arthur Verocai,
Depeche Mode,
Bobby Sherman,
World's Most,
Marmalade,
Liliput,
Kevin Saunderson,
Derrick May,
Prince Buster,
Sugar Minott,
Yaz,
Malaria!,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
MDC,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Roxette,
CMW,
Shoche,
Pagans,
Cecil Taylor,
Sarah Menescal,
Goldenarms,
Rites of Spring,
Bizarre Inc.,
ABBA,
Toni Rubio,
Rotary Connection,
The Searchers,
Q65,
Faraquet,
Inner City,
Skarface,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Accadde A,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ronnie Foster,
The Fortunes,
EPMD,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.