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 Angola and from Beijing.
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 Madrid and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Neil Young to the rock 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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Erasure,
Dual Sessions,
Visage,
Howard Jones,
Tears for Fears,
Quando Quango,
F. McDonald,
Rod Modell,
Talk Talk,
Ludus,
Ituana,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Average White Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Aural Exciters,
D'Angelo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Harmonia,
The Fuzztones,
The Moody Blues,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cal Tjader,
Drexciya,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fela Kuti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Audionom,
The Walker Brothers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Misunderstood,
Harry Pussy,
Eurythmics,
The Selecter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fugs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ohio Players,
The Offenders,
Pere Ubu,
Zapp,
Can,
Pet Shop Boys,
Danielle Patucci,
The Dead C,
Kaleidoscope,
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Görl,
X-101,
Prince Buster,
Godley & Creme,
Fear,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Victims,
Anakelly,
Camouflage,
Oneida,
The Fall,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.