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 Senegal and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Donald Fagen 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 cv313 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Spandau Ballet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Shoche,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barbara Tucker,
The Five Americans,
June Days,
Dual Sessions,
Rufus Thomas,
Cameo,
Sparks,
Thee Headcoats,
Mad Mike,
Vainqueur,
Grey Daturas,
PIL,
Khruangbin,
The Associates,
David Axelrod,
Visage,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Zero Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Motorama,
Eddi Front,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Faraquet,
the Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nation of Ulysses,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ornette Coleman,
Fluxion,
Rekid,
The Victims,
Aural Exciters,
Loose Ends,
Marc Almond,
a-ha,
The Last Poets,
The Shadows of Knight,
Black Moon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Subhumans,
Tommy Roe,
E-Dancer,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
MDC,
Harpers Bizarre,
Swans,
Graham Central Station,
Technova,
Peter & Gordon,
Rosa Yemen,
David McCallum,
The Fuzztones,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.