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 Papua New Guinea and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and New York.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bizarre Inc. to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Hasil Adkins,
Qualms,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
Deakin,
MC5,
Q and Not U,
Reagan Youth,
The Divine Comedy,
T. Rex,
Connie Case,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moss Icon,
Tomorrow,
Eric Dolphy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scrapy,
Arcadia,
Bizarre Inc.,
Charles Mingus,
The Flesh Eaters,
Crime,
Grauzone,
The Real Kids,
Brand Nubian,
Schoolly D,
Con Funk Shun,
Jeff Lynne,
Tim Buckley,
Cybotron,
Maleditus Sound,
Bootsy Collins,
Traffic Nightmare,
UT,
Barrington Levy,
Bauhaus,
LL Cool J,
the Soft Cell,
Davy DMX,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The J.B.'s,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lalann,
Television Personalities,
The Vogues,
The Gap Band,
Rod Modell,
Agitation Free,
Minnie Riperton,
Soul Sonic Force,
John Holt,
Theoretical Girls,
Joe Smooth,
Juan Atkins,
ABBA,
Absolute Body Control,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Monks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.