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 Peru and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Tubeway Army to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ten City,
Scratch Acid,
Ituana,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bronski Beat,
Massinfluence,
David McCallum,
Toni Rubio,
Silicon Teens,
Tears for Fears,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kayak,
Moebius,
the Swans,
KRS-One,
Moby Grape,
The Star Department,
Anthony Braxton,
The Doors,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DNA,
The Modern Lovers,
Camouflage,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pantaleimon,
Joe Smooth,
Hoover,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joey Negro,
Morten Harket,
The Monochrome Set,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Second Layer,
Interpol,
Dual Sessions,
Lucky Dragons,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Gories,
Iggy Pop,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sonic Youth,
Bobby Sherman,
Charles Mingus,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Zeros,
Junior Murvin,
Gerry Rafferty,
The New Christs,
Spandau Ballet,
Jeff Mills,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Smog,
ABC,
Roger Hodgson,
Nik Kershaw,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.