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 Kyrgyzstan and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Sister Nancy to the grunge 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Andrew Hill 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?
Bauhaus,
D'Angelo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Black Pus,
Glambeats Corp.,
Harry Pussy,
Aaron Thompson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
X-102,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
Pussy Galore,
Pole,
Crispy Ambulance,
Quadrant,
David McCallum,
Second Layer,
Niagra,
DJ Sneak,
The New Christs,
Scott Walker,
Brick,
World's Most,
Scientists,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bootsy Collins,
Cal Tjader,
Television,
Lou Reed,
The Music Machine,
Talk Talk,
The Pop Group,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Rundgren,
Pierre Henry,
Minnie Riperton,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kerri Chandler,
Ronnie Foster,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DJ Style,
Funkadelic,
Bang On A Can,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alison Limerick,
Television Personalities,
Marmalade,
The Wake,
Joe Finger,
Japan,
The Standells,
Nirvana,
Negative Approach,
Interpol,
Ohio Players,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Subhumans,
The Neon Judgement,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.