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 Norway and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Pagans to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dawn Penn,
Ossler,
Alison Limerick,
Electric Light Orchestra,
John Cale,
Franke,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Main Source,
Royal Trux,
Tres Demented,
Interpol,
Flipper,
Inner City,
The Standells,
Nas,
Urselle,
Grey Daturas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pulsallama,
Nik Kershaw,
Janne Schatter,
Lindisfarne,
Massinfluence,
The Gladiators,
Barry Ungar,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Offenders,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tim Buckley,
CMW,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
T. Rex,
Buzzcocks,
Drexciya,
Radiohead,
The Velvet Underground,
Althea and Donna,
Sister Nancy,
Black Moon,
The Durutti Column,
Minor Threat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Glambeats Corp.,
MDC,
Crooked Eye,
Johnny Osbourne,
Connie Case,
Sparks,
Pylon,
Loose Ends,
John Lydon,
Matthew Bourne,
Electric Prunes,
ABBA,
Ituana,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Alphaville,
Roy Ayers,
Scion,
Yellowson,
The Leaves,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.