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 Honduras and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Taipei.
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 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 L. Decosne to the funk 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
The Golliwogs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bad Manners,
Chris & Cosey,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ash Ra Tempel,
X-102,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Absolute Body Control,
Technova,
Joe Finger,
Average White Band,
Pierre Henry,
Carl Craig,
Animal Collective,
Ken Boothe,
Oblivians,
Bobby Womack,
Judy Mowatt,
The Fugs,
Fear,
Public Enemy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
Guru Guru,
Minutemen,
Marvin Gaye,
Nation of Ulysses,
Underground Resistance,
The Gun Club,
Matthew Halsall,
Stiv Bators,
Neil Young,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Germs,
The Fuzztones,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pulsallama,
PIL,
Janne Schatter,
Jeff Mills,
Index,
The Mojo Men,
Malaria!,
The Names,
Patti Smith,
Aswad,
Shuggie Otis,
Peter & Gordon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bob Dylan,
Nas,
Soul II Soul,
Sound Behaviour,
the Bar-Kays,
Terry Callier,
Johnny Osbourne,
Supertramp,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.