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 Tajikistan and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Ultravox to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Isaac Hayes,
Sound Behaviour,
China Crisis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bizarre Inc.,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter & Gordon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Essential Logic,
Gong,
Brick,
Lalann,
The Names,
Second Layer,
Henry Cow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minutemen,
The Index,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eurythmics,
New Order,
Yazoo,
Theoretical Girls,
Moebius,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Slits,
Urselle,
Aaron Thompson,
Bang On A Can,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eli Mardock,
Radio Birdman,
Bronski Beat,
The Neon Judgement,
Scott Walker,
The Barracudas,
Dave Gahan,
Kayak,
Alton Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kerri Chandler,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
DNA,
Michelle Simonal,
Goldenarms,
the Sonics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Fania All-Stars,
48th St. Collective,
Kurtis Blow,
Marine Girls,
Ronan,
Clear Light,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.