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 Belize and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Residents to the jazz 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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Subhumans,
Joe Finger,
Bronski Beat,
Stereo Dub,
Public Image Ltd.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Real Kids,
Iggy Pop,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amon Düül,
Mark Hollis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Severed Heads,
Bob Dylan,
Echospace,
Grauzone,
Nik Kershaw,
The Remains,
The Gories,
the Normal,
Wings,
Bang On A Can,
Gastr Del Sol,
Masters at Work,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Talk Talk,
Max Romeo,
PIL,
Buzzcocks,
Funky Four + One,
The Moleskins,
Alison Limerick,
The Offenders,
Ornette Coleman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barry Ungar,
Intrusion,
Y Pants,
Public Enemy,
Magma,
The Vogues,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Human League,
Television,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ten City,
Eurythmics,
Fatback Band,
Average White Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Sparks,
Agent Orange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David Bowie,
The Victims,
Vladislav Delay,
The Dirtbombs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.