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 Japan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Philadelphia.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Toasters to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Maleditus Sound,
the Human League,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Grey Daturas,
The Knickerbockers,
In Retrospect,
Alton Ellis,
Sandy B,
Roger Hodgson,
Kurtis Blow,
Youth Brigade,
Chris Corsano,
The Blues Magoos,
The Cure,
Tomorrow,
Radiohead,
Rapeman,
The Zeros,
Urselle,
Silicon Teens,
Drive Like Jehu,
48th St. Collective,
The Divine Comedy,
Avey Tare,
Grauzone,
Groovy Waters,
China Crisis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rakim,
Model 500,
Fela Kuti,
The Victims,
Boz Scaggs,
Archie Shepp,
The Associates,
Bobby Byrd,
Althea and Donna,
Bauhaus,
Mandrill,
The Smoke,
Junior Murvin,
The Tremeloes,
Mark Hollis,
The Mummies,
The Selecter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Crash Course in Science,
Toni Rubio,
Andrew Hill,
AZ,
Average White Band,
the Association,
Fatback Band,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Count Five,
Grandmaster Flash,
John Holt,
Stereo Dub,
Audionom,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.