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 Czech Republic and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
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 Johnny Clarke to the punk 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Spandau Ballet,
Neil Young,
Matthew Bourne,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sight & Sound,
Mars,
ABC,
Flipper,
Echospace,
Motorama,
The Misunderstood,
Marine Girls,
a-ha,
The Moody Blues,
Nick Fraelich,
Al Stewart,
Sonny Sharrock,
Girls At Our Best!,
Suicide,
Fad Gadget,
Heaven 17,
PIL,
Japan,
Hardrive,
The Litter,
Mantronix,
Arcadia,
Moss Icon,
Roger Hodgson,
the Human League,
Grauzone,
Ossler,
Donald Byrd,
The Blackbyrds,
The Last Poets,
Clear Light,
Bang On A Can,
The Sonics,
Babytalk,
Maleditus Sound,
Zero Boys,
Derrick Morgan,
Pulsallama,
Make Up,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rotary Connection,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Angels of Light,
Symarip,
Minnie Riperton,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joe Finger,
China Crisis,
Buzzcocks,
Warren Ellis,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fortunes,
Yellowson,
MC5,
Inner City,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.