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 Azerbaijan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Second Layer,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yusef Lateef,
Harmonia,
T.S.O.L.,
Joy Division,
Zero Boys,
The Victims,
Marcia Griffiths,
Japan,
Deepchord,
Gerry Rafferty,
Barrington Levy,
Sonic Youth,
The Residents,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lakeside,
Skarface,
The Fuzztones,
Yaz,
Nirvana,
David Axelrod,
The Move,
Deakin,
Cameo,
Eden Ahbez,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Litter,
Laurel Aitken,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vladislav Delay,
The Busters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Parry Music,
Colin Newman,
The Gladiators,
Nas,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Half Japanese,
Reuben Wilson,
Albert Ayler,
Wally Richardson,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Human League,
Pussy Galore,
The Pop Group,
Bootsy Collins,
Supertramp,
Theoretical Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tropical Tobacco,
Underground Resistance,
Pole,
Kayak,
The Pretty Things,
Swans,
Slave,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brothers Johnson,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.