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 Libya and from Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Hong Kong.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Infiniti to the grime 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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alphaville,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cecil Taylor,
Anthony Braxton,
Deepchord,
Shuggie Otis,
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Sherman,
Buzzcocks,
AZ,
Saccharine Trust,
Sonic Youth,
Roger Hodgson,
Fela Kuti,
The Fall,
Mission of Burma,
Slave,
Gerry Rafferty,
Iggy Pop,
H. Thieme,
Anakelly,
Icehouse,
Fear,
This Heat,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bronski Beat,
Easy Going,
Davy DMX,
Faust,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Remains,
Pierre Henry,
8 Eyed Spy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rites of Spring,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Techniques,
The Monks,
Roy Ayers,
The Standells,
Infiniti,
Can,
X-102,
Popol Vuh,
David McCallum,
Ronan,
Bad Manners,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dual Sessions,
The Barracudas,
Sister Nancy,
The Offenders,
Matthew Bourne,
Leonard Cohen,
Radio Birdman,
The Cure,
The Red Krayola,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Glambeats Corp.,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.