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 Uganda 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lyon.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar 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 Black Pus to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Ten City,
Absolute Body Control,
Cymande,
Tomorrow,
Agent Orange,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Last Poets,
The Monks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Connie Case,
Dave Gahan,
Deakin,
Marmalade,
Los Fastidios,
Colin Newman,
Nick Fraelich,
F. McDonald,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
LL Cool J,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
David Axelrod,
DJ Sneak,
Theoretical Girls,
Supertramp,
the Bar-Kays,
The Barracudas,
Arcadia,
Avey Tare,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Hoover,
B.T. Express,
Ultravox,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Arab on Radar,
The Angels of Light,
Inner City,
Con Funk Shun,
Bad Manners,
The Fortunes,
Sun Ra,
Sparks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cybotron,
Tom Boy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
MDC,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eurythmics,
Au Pairs,
The Smiths,
Model 500,
Shoche,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ronnie Foster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Warsaw,
UT,
Peter and Kerry,
The Leaves,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.