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 Belarus and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare 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 Zero Boys to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Susan Cadogan,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Moon,
Bobby Sherman,
Arab on Radar,
The Move,
X-102,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter and Kerry,
Lower 48,
Todd Rundgren,
Suburban Knight,
The Five Americans,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Birthday Party,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Popol Vuh,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Moss Icon,
Mantronix,
Fat Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Oblivians,
Eve St. Jones,
Cheater Slicks,
Scott Walker,
Juan Atkins,
Excepter,
Junior Murvin,
Chris Corsano,
Country Teasers,
Erasure,
Darondo,
Lungfish,
In Retrospect,
48th St. Collective,
One Last Wish,
Vladislav Delay,
La Düsseldorf,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gabor Szabo,
T. Rex,
FM Einheit,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Throbbing Gristle,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Neon Judgement,
The Fall,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
E-Dancer,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marc Almond,
Nirvana,
Barbara Tucker,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.