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 Qatar and from London.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus 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 synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Fugazi,
The Zeros,
The Moleskins,
Dave Gahan,
Outsiders,
The Mummies,
The Music Machine,
Flash Fearless,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Warsaw,
Bad Manners,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Aaron Thompson,
Wolf Eyes,
Babytalk,
Deepchord,
The Grass Roots,
Eric Copeland,
The Searchers,
Ten City,
Monolake,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
John Lydon,
Donny Hathaway,
Tomorrow,
Model 500,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DJ Style,
Sun Ra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Alarm Clocks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New Order,
Soft Cell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Parry Music,
Whodini,
Lower 48,
Scratch Acid,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Camberwell Now,
Nils Olav,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
AZ,
the Germs,
Thompson Twins,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Josef K,
Albert Ayler,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kas Product,
Circle Jerks,
The Blues Magoos,
Sandy B,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.