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 Finland and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Morten Harket to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 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 Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Jacob Miller,
Fela Kuti,
Prince Buster,
The Shadows of Knight,
Joe Finger,
The Divine Comedy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Visage,
Delta 5,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter & Gordon,
Guru Guru,
Todd Terry,
Eden Ahbez,
Bobby Sherman,
Stetsasonic,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Womack,
The Trojans,
Curtis Mayfield,
Black Bananas,
Niagra,
Sixth Finger,
Patti Smith,
The New Christs,
The Grass Roots,
Vainqueur,
The Golliwogs,
Barry Ungar,
Marmalade,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kurtis Blow,
Kayak,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Erykah Badu,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fad Gadget,
Sandy B,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skarface,
Organ,
Lakeside,
This Heat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Inner City,
Radio Birdman,
Chris Corsano,
a-ha,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Smoke,
Eric Dolphy,
Terry Callier,
Howard Jones,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Sonics,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cymande,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.