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 Iraq and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Toni Rubio to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
a-ha,
Magma,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Duran Duran,
Curtis Mayfield,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ossler,
Pulsallama,
The Slackers,
Basic Channel,
Charles Mingus,
The Stooges,
Deepchord,
New Age Steppers,
Icehouse,
London Community Gospel Choir,
PIL,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dawn Penn,
The Martian,
Davy DMX,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Chrome,
The Star Department,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joyce Sims,
Nik Kershaw,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Searchers,
Sandy B,
Warren Ellis,
Jeru the Damaja,
New Order,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eve St. Jones,
Aloha Tigers,
Bluetip,
Man Parrish,
Inner City,
Josef K,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Fuzztones,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Neu!,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Urselle,
MC5,
Alphaville,
Vainqueur,
D'Angelo,
Can,
Drexciya,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Monolake,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Names,
Al Stewart,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fugs,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.