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 Albania and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the jazz 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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Parrish,
Nick Fraelich,
Parry Music,
Ronnie Foster,
The Human League,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Liliput,
Blancmange,
Fugazi,
Delon & Dalcan,
Howard Jones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Shadows of Knight,
10cc,
Infiniti,
Maurizio,
The Monochrome Set,
Lightning Bolt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jacques Brel,
Pierre Henry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Young Rascals,
Hardrive,
Gang Starr,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soul II Soul,
Bobby Sherman,
Camouflage,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott Heron,
Niagra,
Hoover,
The Fugs,
Oneida,
Janne Schatter,
Fad Gadget,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Donald Byrd,
Flipper,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pagans,
Stiv Bators,
Groovy Waters,
The Stooges,
Stockholm Monsters,
D'Angelo,
Pantytec,
Al Stewart,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dark Day,
Boredoms,
Man Eating Sloth,
Banda Bassotti,
Eric Dolphy,
Lucky Dragons,
MC5,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stetsasonic,
David Bowie,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.