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 Eritrea and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Gun Club to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Piero Umiliani,
Blake Baxter,
Mandrill,
Rod Modell,
Blancmange,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ponytail,
Con Funk Shun,
UT,
Model 500,
David McCallum,
Tim Buckley,
Judy Mowatt,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pantytec,
Porter Ricks,
Grauzone,
Guru Guru,
The Saints,
John Holt,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Reagan Youth,
Stetsasonic,
The Cramps,
Interpol,
OOIOO,
Groovy Waters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Black Flag,
Danielle Patucci,
Duran Duran,
D'Angelo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Technova,
Zero Boys,
Oneida,
The Monochrome Set,
The Searchers,
MDC,
Talk Talk,
Girls At Our Best!,
Amon Düül,
Vainqueur,
The Smoke,
Yusef Lateef,
Tears for Fears,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Blues Magoos,
Delta 5,
Rekid,
Liliput,
In Retrospect,
The Golliwogs,
Slave,
June of 44,
Mark Hollis,
Al Stewart,
Nirvana,
Wasted Youth,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.