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 Kuwait and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gregory Isaacs 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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Half Japanese,
Sixth Finger,
Neu!,
F. McDonald,
The Offenders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Boogie Down Productions,
Darondo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Television Personalities,
The American Breed,
Hasil Adkins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Visage,
Vainqueur,
Oblivians,
Kool Moe Dee,
Thee Headcoats,
Matthew Halsall,
John Foxx,
New Order,
Skaos,
Banda Bassotti,
Kurtis Blow,
LL Cool J,
Sex Pistols,
Excepter,
Bauhaus,
This Heat,
Warren Ellis,
Average White Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Schoolly D,
June Days,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Magma,
Joy Division,
the Fania All-Stars,
Junior Murvin,
Eddi Front,
The Five Americans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wire,
Alice Coltrane,
Guru Guru,
The Human League,
The Leaves,
Barclay James Harvest,
Faust,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fugazi,
The J.B.'s,
Mission of Burma,
Yellowson,
Bizarre Inc.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Procol Harum,
Archie Shepp,
Johnny Clarke,
Stiv Bators,
Isaac Hayes,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.