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 Jamaica and from New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 chamberlin 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 Icehouse to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Susan Cadogan,
New Order,
The New Christs,
Blake Baxter,
Magazine,
Ken Boothe,
cv313,
Amon Düül II,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Moebius,
U.S. Maple,
Shoche,
Brick,
Hot Snakes,
Niagra,
Delta 5,
Fad Gadget,
Lower 48,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Sound,
Half Japanese,
Chris Corsano,
Sonic Youth,
Thompson Twins,
Hoover,
Soul II Soul,
Cecil Taylor,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Matthew Bourne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brothers Johnson,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wally Richardson,
JFA,
The Standells,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Walker Brothers,
David Bowie,
Sparks,
The Cowsills,
Bronski Beat,
Andrew Hill,
Sugar Minott,
Iggy Pop,
Erasure,
Ornette Coleman,
DNA,
MDC,
Rakim,
Q and Not U,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang Starr,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Parry Music,
John Lydon,
10cc,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.