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 Guyana and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 This Heat to the crunk 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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
John Cale,
The Associates,
Slave,
Aural Exciters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DNA,
Desert Stars,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mr. Review,
Severed Heads,
Eve St. Jones,
Dawn Penn,
Camberwell Now,
The Misunderstood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gregory Isaacs,
Junior Murvin,
Circle Jerks,
Piero Umiliani,
Erykah Badu,
Max Romeo,
Arthur Verocai,
Bootsy Collins,
10cc,
Thompson Twins,
Marc Almond,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Guru Guru,
The Divine Comedy,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Lynne,
The Techniques,
Alphaville,
Roxette,
Ituana,
Make Up,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Can,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lower 48,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Liliput,
Marine Girls,
Sandy B,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
In Retrospect,
Radiopuhelimet,
Warren Ellis,
Buzzcocks,
Agent Orange,
the Soft Cell,
Altered Images,
Aaron Thompson,
Donald Byrd,
Camouflage,
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.