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 the UAE 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 New York Dolls to the rock 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Amon Düül,
Davy DMX,
Ossler,
Lungfish,
Iggy Pop,
Rufus Thomas,
Lee Hazlewood,
Circle Jerks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Make Up,
The Cramps,
Ken Boothe,
Ten City,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DNA,
The Dirtbombs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Theoretical Girls,
Bronski Beat,
Minor Threat,
Thompson Twins,
The Flesh Eaters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brass Construction,
Stiv Bators,
Fad Gadget,
R.M.O.,
The Red Krayola,
Barrington Levy,
Buzzcocks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Livin' Joy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Judy Mowatt,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cybotron,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Basic Channel,
Gabor Szabo,
The Toasters,
The Slackers,
X-Ray Spex,
The Misunderstood,
The Motions,
Ultravox,
Oneida,
Lucky Dragons,
Derrick Morgan,
Tomorrow,
Steve Hackett,
Radio Birdman,
Fluxion,
Pylon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Television,
Althea and Donna,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.