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 Chad and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Kas Product,
Funky Four + One,
Howard Jones,
Procol Harum,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Crispian St. Peters,
Faust,
Thompson Twins,
Shuggie Otis,
Ituana,
Soft Cell,
Harry Pussy,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Remains,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Martian,
Newcleus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quadrant,
Fatback Band,
Rites of Spring,
Average White Band,
Sixth Finger,
David Axelrod,
Sun City Girls,
Anthony Braxton,
Pussy Galore,
The Associates,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Wally Richardson,
Skaos,
Audionom,
Accadde A,
Flash Fearless,
KRS-One,
The Fire Engines,
Juan Atkins,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Mojo Men,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Five Americans,
Big Daddy Kane,
Arab on Radar,
Judy Mowatt,
Sex Pistols,
The Cure,
MC5,
Motorama,
Soul Sonic Force,
K-Klass,
Donny Hathaway,
Thee Headcoats,
Robert Wyatt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pagans,
Rakim,
The Knickerbockers,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.