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 Rwanda and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Maurizio to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Steve Hackett,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Albert Ayler,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Flash Fearless,
Bill Wells,
Sister Nancy,
Youth Brigade,
The Doors,
James White and The Blacks,
Howard Jones,
The Happenings,
The Motions,
Jimmy McGriff,
Oneida,
Main Source,
Deepchord,
Arcadia,
Lee Hazlewood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Can,
Pylon,
One Last Wish,
Subhumans,
Tim Buckley,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
the Human League,
Soulsonic Force,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Detroit Cobras,
a-ha,
Cameo,
The Pretty Things,
DJ Sneak,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Darondo,
Junior Murvin,
Funky Four + One,
Ultra Naté,
Gregory Isaacs,
Godley & Creme,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ice-T,
The Blackbyrds,
Eve St. Jones,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Moody Blues,
Q and Not U,
The Golliwogs,
The Smoke,
MC5,
Brothers Johnson,
Black Moon,
Deakin,
Bobby Womack,
Frankie Knuckles,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.