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 Venezuela and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Groovy Waters to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Maleditus Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Knickerbockers,
Thompson Twins,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ituana,
John Cale,
Soul Sonic Force,
Outsiders,
Grandmaster Flash,
Japan,
Underground Resistance,
Pulsallama,
Scan 7,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Suburban Knight,
Can,
Wasted Youth,
Hot Snakes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Neon Judgement,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Dead C,
Ronan,
Radio Birdman,
FM Einheit,
Tres Demented,
Average White Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Sam Rivers,
Scott Walker,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yellowson,
The Offenders,
cv313,
Aural Exciters,
Lungfish,
Scion,
Alton Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Essential Logic,
This Heat,
Avey Tare,
Mantronix,
Charles Mingus,
The Barracudas,
Eurythmics,
the Slits,
Boredoms,
The Associates,
Rufus Thomas,
Panda Bear,
Lower 48,
Marc Almond,
The Real Kids,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.