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 Japan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Soft Machine to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
DJ Style,
The Raincoats,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Association,
Gerry Rafferty,
Patti Smith,
Kerrie Biddell,
Peter & Gordon,
Ornette Coleman,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pylon,
Sarah Menescal,
Outsiders,
Youth Brigade,
Charles Mingus,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Oblivians,
Aswad,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scott Walker,
Cameo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Warren Ellis,
Camouflage,
Dawn Penn,
the Slits,
Tubeway Army,
Glenn Branca,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mad Mike,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Wake,
Rekid,
The Golliwogs,
This Heat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Guru Guru,
Marshall Jefferson,
Main Source,
The Walker Brothers,
R.M.O.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
T.S.O.L.,
The Moody Blues,
The Slits,
Sister Nancy,
Altered Images,
Erykah Badu,
Deadbeat,
The Busters,
T. Rex,
Bang On A Can,
Dave Gahan,
The Saints,
Excepter,
Trumans Water,
Procol Harum,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.