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 Mauritania and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 X-Ray Spex to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord 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 techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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 Shadows of Knight,
Boogie Down Productions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Arthur Verocai,
Scan 7,
Leonard Cohen,
LL Cool J,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fall,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Raincoats,
The Zeros,
World's Most,
Au Pairs,
Mars,
The Birthday Party,
Hashim,
D'Angelo,
Brass Construction,
48th St. Collective,
Dave Gahan,
The Motions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Suicide,
These Immortal Souls,
Mark Hollis,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Maleditus Sound,
Liliput,
Gang Green,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Howard Jones,
Cluster,
Agitation Free,
The Gap Band,
Echospace,
Warsaw,
Intrusion,
Soul Sonic Force,
KRS-One,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
June of 44,
Nik Kershaw,
The Five Americans,
Juan Atkins,
The Cowsills,
The Beau Brummels,
a-ha,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kaleidoscope,
Chris Corsano,
Lyres,
Ossler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Unrelated Segments,
Moss Icon,
Dark Day,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.