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 France 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Excepter to the disco 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Laurel Aitken,
Godley & Creme,
H. Thieme,
Todd Rundgren,
The Durutti Column,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Shadows of Knight,
Harpers Bizarre,
Boz Scaggs,
Gong,
Pere Ubu,
Sällskapet,
The Cowsills,
Audionom,
Slave,
Faraquet,
Chris & Cosey,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stiv Bators,
Camberwell Now,
Delta 5,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Pretty Things,
Steve Hackett,
Sam Rivers,
Essential Logic,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Junior Murvin,
Hot Snakes,
The Neon Judgement,
Sister Nancy,
Little Man,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Slick Rick,
The Count Five,
Dark Day,
Marvin Gaye,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Litter,
Nils Olav,
Pussy Galore,
Malaria!,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mr. Review,
Lindisfarne,
Outsiders,
Black Flag,
Cameo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ornette Coleman,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Vogues,
Darondo,
Mars,
John Foxx,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rhythm & Sound,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.