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 Ghana and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Don Cherry to the grunge 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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
D'Angelo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Golliwogs,
Babytalk,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Searchers,
Sixth Finger,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Spoonie Gee,
Warren Ellis,
Rapeman,
Japan,
Gerry Rafferty,
Oblivians,
Kerri Chandler,
8 Eyed Spy,
Electric Prunes,
Malaria!,
Derrick May,
Q and Not U,
Mo-Dettes,
Infiniti,
Slave,
Archie Shepp,
Iggy Pop,
Ronan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minnie Riperton,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Max Romeo,
The Human League,
Gregory Isaacs,
T.S.O.L.,
The American Breed,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Soft Cell,
Radiohead,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Walker Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Clear Light,
Delon & Dalcan,
New Order,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sarah Menescal,
Kaleidoscope,
Das Ding,
Television Personalities,
Buzzcocks,
The Buckinghams,
Ponytail,
Nick Fraelich,
Roxette,
Ken Boothe,
Sonic Youth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.