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 Jordan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Roger Hodgson to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
The Pretty Things,
H. Thieme,
Mandrill,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sparks,
The Dirtbombs,
FM Einheit,
the Slits,
Mark Hollis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Quantec,
The Gun Club,
Magma,
Kenny Larkin,
Albert Ayler,
Popol Vuh,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Letta Mbulu,
Peter & Gordon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rod Modell,
One Last Wish,
The Cramps,
Hardrive,
Joe Finger,
Gichy Dan,
The Remains,
Kurtis Blow,
Graham Central Station,
Roger Hodgson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pierre Henry,
Stiv Bators,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eurythmics,
The Black Dice,
Little Man,
The Evens,
K-Klass,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brick,
L. Decosne,
Camberwell Now,
Steve Hackett,
Jawbox,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Gap Band,
Blossom Toes,
Mission of Burma,
Sound Behaviour,
Andrew Hill,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radiohead,
MDC,
Tropical Tobacco,
Aswad,
Skriet,
Lalann,
The Barracudas,
Audionom,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.