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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Michael McDonald 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 Barbara Tucker to the grime 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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Pus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Stetsasonic,
Man Parrish,
The Fugs,
The American Breed,
Anakelly,
Steve Hackett,
Joy Division,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Association,
Magma,
Robert Görl,
Model 500,
Drive Like Jehu,
Alice Coltrane,
Fat Boys,
Bootsy Collins,
JFA,
Delta 5,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Supertramp,
Roger Hodgson,
Pantaleimon,
Hardrive,
Skriet,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Warren Ellis,
Chrome,
Ken Boothe,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Q and Not U,
CMW,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Flipper,
Thompson Twins,
Inner City,
Duran Duran,
DJ Style,
Michelle Simonal,
New Age Steppers,
The Slits,
Young Marble Giants,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Holt,
Wings,
Faraquet,
Cybotron,
Shuggie Otis,
Barclay James Harvest,
Von Mondo,
Quando Quango,
The Raincoats,
The Real Kids,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ultra Naté,
Neu!,
Brand Nubian,
Lower 48,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.