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 Gabon and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gerry Rafferty to the disco 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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monks,
the Sonics,
Lower 48,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bill Wells,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Susan Cadogan,
Alice Coltrane,
Japan,
Talk Talk,
Dual Sessions,
Aswad,
Neil Young,
Magma,
Lalann,
Lebanon Hanover,
Can,
Hardrive,
Cecil Taylor,
Flash Fearless,
Godley & Creme,
In Retrospect,
Underground Resistance,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mandrill,
Parry Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ossler,
Young Marble Giants,
CMW,
ABC,
The Blackbyrds,
This Heat,
Popol Vuh,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Robert Wyatt,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Stooges,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marvin Gaye,
Dave Gahan,
The Blues Magoos,
The Monks,
Sight & Sound,
Echospace,
Byron Stingily,
Cameo,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Standells,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pulsallama,
The Sonics,
Essential Logic,
Brothers Johnson,
Radiohead,
Qualms,
The Barracudas,
Leonard Cohen,
Sam Rivers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.