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 Guinea and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ossler to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Zapp,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Patti Smith,
Television Personalities,
The Slackers,
The Cowsills,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kenny Larkin,
Hardrive,
Joe Smooth,
Aswad,
Matthew Bourne,
Sound Behaviour,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Neil Young,
Royal Trux,
Quadrant,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mark Hollis,
FM Einheit,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Janne Schatter,
Roy Ayers,
Wasted Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Beau Brummels,
Massinfluence,
Laurel Aitken,
Rod Modell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Organ,
Section 25,
China Crisis,
Half Japanese,
Fat Boys,
Cybotron,
Marshall Jefferson,
OOIOO,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Human League,
Motorama,
Carl Craig,
48th St. Collective,
Hot Snakes,
Vainqueur,
Scion,
The Tremeloes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kurtis Blow,
Sixth Finger,
Gastr Del Sol,
Model 500,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
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.