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 Iceland and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
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 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 John Holt to the electroclash 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Mantronix,
Nick Fraelich,
John Lydon,
Joensuu 1685,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Blackbyrds,
Faraquet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joy Division,
Morten Harket,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
China Crisis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young,
Thompson Twins,
The Toasters,
Tom Boy,
Japan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Funky Four + One,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pet Shop Boys,
Metal Thangz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lebanon Hanover,
Absolute Body Control,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Derrick Morgan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dennis Brown,
Judy Mowatt,
Intrusion,
Michelle Simonal,
Roxette,
the Fania All-Stars,
Soul II Soul,
Yazoo,
Ossler,
Fat Boys,
These Immortal Souls,
The Zeros,
Supertramp,
Al Stewart,
The J.B.'s,
Aswad,
the Normal,
Swell Maps,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Style,
Heaven 17,
Howard Jones,
PIL,
Essential Logic,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Holt,
Graham Central Station,
The Moleskins,
Suicide,
Deepchord,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.