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 Kiribati and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Monks to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Robert Hood,
Japan,
The Pop Group,
Rapeman,
Robert Wyatt,
Vainqueur,
D'Angelo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lalann,
Kaleidoscope,
The Fugs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dawn Penn,
Ten City,
ABBA,
Porter Ricks,
Model 500,
Steve Hackett,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pussy Galore,
Crime,
The Divine Comedy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Patti Smith,
Charles Mingus,
Technova,
Television,
Bluetip,
Unwound,
Slick Rick,
Ornette Coleman,
The Techniques,
The Gap Band,
The Monochrome Set,
The Durutti Column,
The Motions,
Excepter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Panda Bear,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Zeros,
Kevin Saunderson,
AZ,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Royal Trux,
Dual Sessions,
The Mojo Men,
Bobby Womack,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mandrill,
Organ,
The Kinks,
Roxette,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Electric Prunes,
Nico,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.