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 Guinea-Bissau and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 a-ha 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Metal Thangz,
Lalann,
Outsiders,
In Retrospect,
Pylon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gang of Four,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Blues Magoos,
Massinfluence,
Banda Bassotti,
The Dead C,
Joe Smooth,
10cc,
Intrusion,
The Angels of Light,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Popol Vuh,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
L. Decosne,
Das Ding,
Max Romeo,
The Saints,
Tommy Roe,
Average White Band,
Brothers Johnson,
Letta Mbulu,
Soft Machine,
Fad Gadget,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Sound,
The Black Dice,
Jacob Miller,
MDC,
Lucky Dragons,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Barry Ungar,
Lou Christie,
Wasted Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick May,
E-Dancer,
Siglo XX,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Vogues,
Motorama,
Roger Hodgson,
Deakin,
F. McDonald,
Colin Newman,
The Slackers,
The Gories,
Bobby Byrd,
Hot Snakes,
Country Teasers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stiv Bators,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.