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 Macedonia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Lalann to the funk 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Sun City Girls,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jesper Dahlback,
Barrington Levy,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joyce Sims,
Fluxion,
Magazine,
In Retrospect,
La Düsseldorf,
EPMD,
Model 500,
Hashim,
B.T. Express,
Eli Mardock,
Gerry Rafferty,
Monks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ultravox,
Warren Ellis,
Bang On A Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Youth Brigade,
Andrew Hill,
Amazonics,
Pantaleimon,
Chris & Cosey,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mo-Dettes,
Trumans Water,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T. Rex,
Neu!,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Chris Corsano,
Moebius,
Matthew Halsall,
Marvin Gaye,
48th St. Collective,
Ludus,
Lou Reed,
Oblivians,
The Skatalites,
Blossom Toes,
Symarip,
Quantec,
DJ Style,
Flamin' Groovies,
Duran Duran,
The Pop Group,
Anakelly,
Pantytec,
The Fuzztones,
Wolf Eyes,
Cluster,
Accadde A,
Lindisfarne,
Yaz,
Nils Olav,
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.