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 Thailand and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Moody Blues to the crunk 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba 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 mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Angels of Light,
Gong,
Mandrill,
The Last Poets,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Outsiders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nico,
Deepchord,
Roy Ayers,
Animal Collective,
New Age Steppers,
Monks,
Faraquet,
One Last Wish,
Ornette Coleman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
T. Rex,
Brothers Johnson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Urselle,
Neu!,
Todd Terry,
The Pop Group,
The Evens,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Soft Cell,
Anakelly,
Altered Images,
the Human League,
Godley & Creme,
The Kinks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fat Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eddi Front,
The Modern Lovers,
New Order,
Icehouse,
Minny Pops,
Thompson Twins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Stiv Bators,
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Raincoats,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grey Daturas,
Electric Prunes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Iggy Pop,
Jeff Lynne,
Crispian St. Peters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Roxette,
The Move,
Barclay James Harvest,
Connie Case,
John Cale,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.