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 Bangladesh and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Danielle Patucci to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Basic Channel,
Sight & Sound,
John Coltrane,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Piero Umiliani,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Doors,
8 Eyed Spy,
Stiv Bators,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Leaves,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Brass Construction,
Fela Kuti,
Porter Ricks,
Althea and Donna,
A Certain Ratio,
New Order,
The Blackbyrds,
Unwound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
FM Einheit,
Ohio Players,
Talk Talk,
Gang of Four,
Thompson Twins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Au Pairs,
Funky Four + One,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sällskapet,
Mark Hollis,
Brand Nubian,
Isaac Hayes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Cure,
Television Personalities,
Amon Düül II,
The Smiths,
Freddie Wadling,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Thee Headcoats,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scan 7,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
Agent Orange,
Kerrie Biddell,
Chrome,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Vogues,
Roxette,
Donald Byrd,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.