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 Afghanistan and from Portland.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Lou Reed 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 Q65 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
Kenny Larkin,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy Collins,
Silicon Teens,
The Angels of Light,
CMW,
The Music Machine,
PIL,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ohio Players,
Depeche Mode,
The Cure,
Schoolly D,
the Human League,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fluxion,
Barry Ungar,
Scion,
Scientists,
The New Christs,
Royal Trux,
Agitation Free,
Black Bananas,
Spandau Ballet,
Terry Callier,
The Saints,
Television,
Babytalk,
DNA,
Lalann,
Essential Logic,
Basic Channel,
Cybotron,
The Black Dice,
The Offenders,
Accadde A,
Roxy Music,
Guru Guru,
Pulsallama,
Toni Rubio,
The Monochrome Set,
The Electric Prunes,
A Certain Ratio,
Sällskapet,
Loose Ends,
Country Teasers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scrapy,
Masters at Work,
Electric Light Orchestra,
DJ Style,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Model 500,
Eddi Front,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Grass Roots,
Bad Manners,
MDC,
Lindisfarne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.