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 Zimbabwe and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Shuggie Otis to the grime 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
kango's stein massive,
Country Teasers,
Ronan,
Thee Headcoats,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
MC5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Albert Ayler,
Leonard Cohen,
Easy Going,
Ludus,
The Toasters,
Blake Baxter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mummies,
Sister Nancy,
Motorama,
Radio Birdman,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joey Negro,
The Victims,
Eli Mardock,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Holt,
Popol Vuh,
Dave Gahan,
Pylon,
The Sonics,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter & Gordon,
The Blues Magoos,
Faraquet,
Masters at Work,
Bob Dylan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nik Kershaw,
Maleditus Sound,
Half Japanese,
Wire,
Basic Channel,
Goldenarms,
Scan 7,
Erykah Badu,
Cheater Slicks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Knickerbockers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lindisfarne,
Warsaw,
Gichy Dan,
Sight & Sound,
DNA,
Zapp,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Tremeloes,
Lungfish,
Alice Coltrane,
Hardrive,
Isaac Hayes,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.