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 Samoa and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Houston.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Fatback Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Stiv Bators,
Erykah Badu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kas Product,
The Sound,
the Swans,
Todd Rundgren,
Johnny Osbourne,
X-101,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
cv313,
David Axelrod,
Skarface,
Alton Ellis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bob Dylan,
Altered Images,
Grandmaster Flash,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Goldenarms,
Television Personalities,
The Fugs,
Sister Nancy,
Morten Harket,
The Associates,
Groovy Waters,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Deadbeat,
Rekid,
Subhumans,
The Trojans,
Peter and Kerry,
June Days,
Gang of Four,
Michelle Simonal,
Lou Christie,
Drexciya,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultra Naté,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Royal Trux,
Thee Headcoats,
Section 25,
R.M.O.,
Lakeside,
The Vogues,
Rites of Spring,
The Techniques,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Man Parrish,
Yusef Lateef,
Lightning Bolt,
Hot Snakes,
Blake Baxter,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scientists,
Second Layer,
Maurizio,
Bush Tetras,
Eddi Front,
ABBA,
Negative Approach,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.