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 Vietnam and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 the Bar-Kays to the rap 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eli Mardock,
Junior Murvin,
The Slackers,
Guru Guru,
Scratch Acid,
Eve St. Jones,
The Pop Group,
The Gap Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ossler,
Bill Near,
Procol Harum,
Minnie Riperton,
John Foxx,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joy Division,
The Smoke,
Big Daddy Kane,
T.S.O.L.,
X-Ray Spex,
Cymande,
Sexual Harrassment,
Matthew Halsall,
The Five Americans,
New Order,
Animal Collective,
Terrestrial Tones,
Funkadelic,
Intrusion,
PIL,
Iggy Pop,
Marcia Griffiths,
Howard Jones,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Flash Fearless,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Idris Muhammad,
Albert Ayler,
Sparks,
Jerry's Kids,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Supertramp,
The Last Poets,
Glenn Branca,
One Last Wish,
Kurtis Blow,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Los Fastidios,
Blake Baxter,
The Cowsills,
Harpers Bizarre,
Underground Resistance,
UT,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Pole,
Tears for Fears,
DNA,
The Grass Roots,
The Index,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.