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 Liberia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Amon Düül II to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Peter and Kerry,
Mandrill,
Royal Trux,
Kurtis Blow,
Q65,
Young Marble Giants,
Metal Thangz,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lou Christie,
Deakin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bush Tetras,
Depeche Mode,
Qualms,
Soul II Soul,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Outsiders,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Matthew Bourne,
Blancmange,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Pus,
Inner City,
Henry Cow,
Magma,
Icehouse,
The Cowsills,
Pylon,
Banda Bassotti,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ornette Coleman,
Minnie Riperton,
Livin' Joy,
Kas Product,
The Fall,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shoche,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Slackers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Velvet Underground,
Youth Brigade,
Babytalk,
Mars,
Intrusion,
Pere Ubu,
Rod Modell,
Fugazi,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Massinfluence,
Audionom,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nirvana,
Negative Approach,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.