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 El Salvador and from Tokyo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Boogie Down Productions,
T. Rex,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Adolescents,
E-Dancer,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ohio Players,
Cheater Slicks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Christie,
The Smiths,
Gang Green,
Metal Thangz,
Bush Tetras,
Harry Pussy,
Public Enemy,
Newcleus,
Alton Ellis,
Howard Jones,
Shuggie Otis,
Dawn Penn,
The United States of America,
Pierre Henry,
Monolake,
This Heat,
The Dirtbombs,
Glenn Branca,
Lower 48,
Gang of Four,
The Velvet Underground,
Arab on Radar,
Oneida,
Icehouse,
Cameo,
Hasil Adkins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Slackers,
Outsiders,
Excepter,
John Holt,
Letta Mbulu,
Eric Dolphy,
The Fire Engines,
Accadde A,
Half Japanese,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Leaves,
Nik Kershaw,
Technova,
The Slits,
Max Romeo,
10cc,
Dead Boys,
Robert Hood,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Motions,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.