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 Bhutan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Hashim to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Mr. Review,
The Evens,
Tropical Tobacco,
Suicide,
John Foxx,
Maurizio,
Pharoah Sanders,
Radiohead,
Radio Birdman,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Delta 5,
Angry Samoans,
Sonic Youth,
Amazonics,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magma,
Supertramp,
Marshall Jefferson,
Von Mondo,
the Germs,
Massinfluence,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Deepchord,
Kurtis Blow,
Silicon Teens,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
K-Klass,
Morten Harket,
The Electric Prunes,
Sixth Finger,
Oneida,
Heaven 17,
Colin Newman,
Trumans Water,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Skatalites,
The Divine Comedy,
Laurel Aitken,
The Monks,
Minny Pops,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Five Americans,
The Monochrome Set,
Bootsy Collins,
Soft Cell,
Unrelated Segments,
Nick Fraelich,
Motorama,
John Cale,
Roger Hodgson,
Moss Icon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Depeche Mode,
The Misunderstood,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dawn Penn,
Qualms,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.