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 Honduras and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Technova to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Sherman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Tremeloes,
the Soft Cell,
Radiohead,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roy Ayers,
The Saints,
Sound Behaviour,
DNA,
Essential Logic,
Lou Reed,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Christie,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Organ,
Inner City,
Altered Images,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scion,
Soul Sonic Force,
Oblivians,
Fat Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
Thee Headcoats,
Boredoms,
Connie Case,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mo-Dettes,
Tomorrow,
The Cramps,
Roxette,
Television Personalities,
Howard Jones,
Soft Machine,
Roger Hodgson,
Barbara Tucker,
Drexciya,
World's Most,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cheater Slicks,
Procol Harum,
Frankie Knuckles,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sällskapet,
Graham Central Station,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joy Division,
EPMD,
Nirvana,
Young Marble Giants,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deakin,
The Cure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
John Foxx,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soul II Soul,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.