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 Iceland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the jazz 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane 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 '90s.
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 Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
JFA,
Icehouse,
Quadrant,
the Soft Cell,
Neil Young,
The Walker Brothers,
Brothers Johnson,
Marc Almond,
Rhythm & Sound,
Aural Exciters,
John Lydon,
Alice Coltrane,
Chrome,
Ronan,
The Beau Brummels,
R.M.O.,
In Retrospect,
Donald Byrd,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Delta 5,
D'Angelo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Magazine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Little Man,
The Toasters,
Harmonia,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Theoretical Girls,
Cluster,
Ludus,
Barbara Tucker,
the Human League,
Godley & Creme,
Ornette Coleman,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Y Pants,
Camberwell Now,
Fugazi,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mo-Dettes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Livin' Joy,
Franke,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zero Boys,
Skaos,
Carl Craig,
Howard Jones,
World's Most,
Roger Hodgson,
Rotary Connection,
Deepchord,
Marvin Gaye,
The Sound,
Pylon,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.