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 United States and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gong to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Swans,
June Days,
Nation of Ulysses,
Masters at Work,
Ten City,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Minor Threat,
The Fuzztones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joe Smooth,
The Barracudas,
Ultra Naté,
Chris Corsano,
Model 500,
Matthew Bourne,
The Busters,
Yellowson,
The Invisible,
AZ,
Josef K,
Heaven 17,
The Searchers,
The Blues Magoos,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
R.M.O.,
Albert Ayler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Vogues,
Parry Music,
Roger Hodgson,
Iggy Pop,
The Fall,
Magma,
Lightning Bolt,
Soft Cell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Fugs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Monks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young,
Joyce Sims,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vladislav Delay,
Eli Mardock,
Glambeats Corp.,
a-ha,
Urselle,
The Human League,
Brand Nubian,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Al Stewart,
Flash Fearless,
The Selecter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Mojo Men,
Silicon Teens,
Groovy Waters,
The Red Krayola,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.