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 Korea North and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ 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 Faraquet to the jazz 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
Deadbeat,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Duran Duran,
Lungfish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marc Almond,
Outsiders,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dave Gahan,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Doobie Brothers,
Juan Atkins,
Cecil Taylor,
Lalann,
Soft Machine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soulsonic Force,
Tres Demented,
Model 500,
UT,
China Crisis,
Quando Quango,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Adolescents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Zeros,
Clear Light,
Aaron Thompson,
Desert Stars,
Henry Cow,
Ponytail,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rites of Spring,
T.S.O.L.,
Colin Newman,
Magma,
E-Dancer,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jacques Brel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bronski Beat,
Dawn Penn,
Max Romeo,
Sun Ra,
Harmonia,
Lower 48,
Q65,
Royal Trux,
Barbara Tucker,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Smoke,
Mo-Dettes,
Faraquet,
Freddie Wadling,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Swans,
Jawbox,
Massinfluence,
the Association,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.