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 Vanuatu and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Traffic Nightmare to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Susan Cadogan,
Althea and Donna,
Jeff Lynne,
Darondo,
Amon Düül II,
Pole,
Laurel Aitken,
Gregory Isaacs,
DJ Sneak,
Quando Quango,
Chrome,
The J.B.'s,
Bill Near,
Saccharine Trust,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Aaron Thompson,
Gang of Four,
Shuggie Otis,
This Heat,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Durutti Column,
Mission of Burma,
Eden Ahbez,
Eyeless In Gaza,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Victims,
Dorothy Ashby,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
UT,
The Selecter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Model 500,
Gang Green,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Monks,
The Seeds,
Eric B and Rakim,
D'Angelo,
Ituana,
Scrapy,
Intrusion,
Al Stewart,
DNA,
Quadrant,
Black Bananas,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Clear Light,
Bauhaus,
The Toasters,
Goldenarms,
Section 25,
Babytalk,
The Last Poets,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Visage,
Jacob Miller,
The Monochrome Set,
Rites of Spring,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.