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 Estonia and from Portland.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 synthesizer 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 Lakeside to the dance 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Crooked Eye,
This Heat,
Vladislav Delay,
Icehouse,
Amazonics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nils Olav,
Soft Machine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Brick,
PIL,
Zero Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Arab on Radar,
The Searchers,
Arcadia,
Johnny Osbourne,
Neu!,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moleskins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Soul II Soul,
The Index,
Marcia Griffiths,
Index,
The Last Poets,
The Motions,
Connie Case,
Adolescents,
Joyce Sims,
The Monks,
Susan Cadogan,
Bang On A Can,
The Real Kids,
Stiv Bators,
Los Fastidios,
Harmonia,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Image Ltd.,
Second Layer,
Pere Ubu,
Masters at Work,
Scion,
Fad Gadget,
X-101,
Marmalade,
Groovy Waters,
Ten City,
Neil Young,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
U.S. Maple,
Skarface,
Heaven 17,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sight & Sound,
The Blues Magoos,
The Selecter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.