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 Colombia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 A Certain Ratio to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Tears for Fears,
Sun Ra,
Ponytail,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Warsaw,
Robert Wyatt,
Quadrant,
Arab on Radar,
The Invisible,
Dennis Brown,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Vogues,
Zero Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Steve Hackett,
Harpers Bizarre,
Danielle Patucci,
New Order,
Brick,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Average White Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Los Fastidios,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mr. Review,
Bill Near,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mars,
The Evens,
Swans,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wasted Youth,
Aswad,
Second Layer,
James White and The Blacks,
Nick Fraelich,
Subhumans,
Derrick May,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Charles Mingus,
Metal Thangz,
Eddi Front,
The Cowsills,
Cybotron,
T.S.O.L.,
Minnie Riperton,
Lyres,
Panda Bear,
Young Marble Giants,
Marine Girls,
Amon Düül II,
Siglo XX,
Michelle Simonal,
Hardrive,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Fortunes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rotary Connection,
Urselle,
Lightning Bolt,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.