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 Morocco and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 The Golliwogs to the punk 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Soul II Soul,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sixth Finger,
Rod Modell,
Al Stewart,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mark Hollis,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Angels of Light,
Eli Mardock,
Unwound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Q65,
Television Personalities,
A Certain Ratio,
Aloha Tigers,
Sexual Harrassment,
the Bar-Kays,
The Fortunes,
Eurythmics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Country Joe & The Fish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
LL Cool J,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Detroit Cobras,
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Duran Duran,
Sonic Youth,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hashim,
The Music Machine,
Icehouse,
Eddi Front,
Robert Wyatt,
China Crisis,
KRS-One,
Sun Ra,
These Immortal Souls,
Aswad,
Roxy Music,
Sound Behaviour,
Tres Demented,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Idris Muhammad,
Flash Fearless,
Niagra,
Popol Vuh,
Bill Wells,
Silicon Teens,
Joe Finger,
Judy Mowatt,
UT,
The Gun Club,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.