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 St Lucia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 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 Unwound to the grime 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Barracudas,
Soft Machine,
DJ Sneak,
the Human League,
Prince Buster,
Gregory Isaacs,
Warren Ellis,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Icehouse,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Animal Collective,
The Doobie Brothers,
Y Pants,
Radiohead,
Juan Atkins,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gong,
Max Romeo,
Susan Cadogan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Electric Prunes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marine Girls,
Sister Nancy,
China Crisis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Funky Four + One,
Jandek,
Ponytail,
Angry Samoans,
Grey Daturas,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eli Mardock,
Infiniti,
Eden Ahbez,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cybotron,
Fear,
Marshall Jefferson,
Blake Baxter,
Eurythmics,
The Martian,
Ornette Coleman,
Anakelly,
Hasil Adkins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joy Division,
T. Rex,
Liliput,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultimate Spinach,
Reuben Wilson,
Fad Gadget,
Cymande,
The Last Poets,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.