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 Romania and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Skriet to the jazz 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Derrick May,
Panda Bear,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Underground Resistance,
The Dave Clark Five,
Carl Craig,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Selecter,
Mr. Review,
The Evens,
Motorama,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Barracudas,
Lakeside,
Spoonie Gee,
Sparks,
Fat Boys,
Ronnie Foster,
Jacob Miller,
Gong,
Eddi Front,
ABC,
Bluetip,
Liliput,
Banda Bassotti,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Zero Boys,
Quando Quango,
Nirvana,
Michelle Simonal,
Stetsasonic,
The Toasters,
a-ha,
Agent Orange,
E-Dancer,
Warren Ellis,
Adolescents,
Faraquet,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
The Happenings,
Easy Going,
Patti Smith,
Basic Channel,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Beau Brummels,
Arab on Radar,
Eric Dolphy,
Susan Cadogan,
Toni Rubio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Johnny Clarke,
Joey Negro,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.