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 Yemen and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Magma to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker,
The Dave Clark Five,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sight & Sound,
Au Pairs,
The Cowsills,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Gap Band,
The Mummies,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cybotron,
Ronnie Foster,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Doors,
Anakelly,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Standells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gil Scott Heron,
Inner City,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Misunderstood,
the Normal,
Traffic Nightmare,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nation of Ulysses,
Echospace,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Basic Channel,
Amazonics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Circle Jerks,
Sister Nancy,
Steve Hackett,
Bobby Byrd,
Freddie Wadling,
Blossom Toes,
Dual Sessions,
The Residents,
Cheater Slicks,
Hasil Adkins,
Eric Dolphy,
Moby Grape,
Yazoo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Cale,
The Monochrome Set,
Amon Düül II,
Malaria!,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Invisible,
Panda Bear,
Warren Ellis,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.