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 Comoros and from Lille.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Absolute Body Control to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '80s.
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 The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
The Gun Club,
Pagans,
The Selecter,
Todd Rundgren,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Newcleus,
Derrick Morgan,
the Swans,
The Searchers,
Chrome,
H. Thieme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stiv Bators,
Sun City Girls,
Pantaleimon,
Roxette,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Normal,
Chris Corsano,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eden Ahbez,
Pantytec,
Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
Faraquet,
Swans,
Severed Heads,
UT,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dorothy Ashby,
Hardrive,
Joey Negro,
Fat Boys,
Tommy Roe,
Bluetip,
Todd Terry,
Wings,
Crispian St. Peters,
Al Stewart,
B.T. Express,
Visage,
Massinfluence,
Eric B and Rakim,
Black Bananas,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Smoke,
Supertramp,
Deepchord,
The Moleskins,
Essential Logic,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rosa Yemen,
Erykah Badu,
Spoonie Gee,
a-ha,
Blossom Toes,
DJ Style,
In Retrospect,
Con Funk Shun,
Camouflage,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.