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 Gabon and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 China Crisis 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Big Daddy Kane,
Michelle Simonal,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Roxy Music,
Youth Brigade,
Talk Talk,
The Saints,
Joe Smooth,
Cal Tjader,
The Gun Club,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Bar-Kays,
Au Pairs,
Alison Limerick,
The Mighty Diamonds,
F. McDonald,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Normal,
Radiohead,
Ultra Naté,
Roger Hodgson,
the Human League,
Royal Trux,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Wasted Youth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Wake,
The Blues Magoos,
Audionom,
kango's stein massive,
Sound Behaviour,
Public Enemy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Susan Cadogan,
Nils Olav,
The Detroit Cobras,
Theoretical Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rekid,
Unrelated Segments,
The Doobie Brothers,
Deakin,
Das Ding,
La Düsseldorf,
Glenn Branca,
Agitation Free,
Camberwell Now,
Ice-T,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fear,
The Fortunes,
Khruangbin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Metal Thangz,
Newcleus,
Max Romeo,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.