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 Malta and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator 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 Visage to the grunge 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Urselle,
Scott Walker,
Grey Daturas,
Agitation Free,
The Electric Prunes,
Clear Light,
Howard Jones,
Sandy B,
Barclay James Harvest,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mark Hollis,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
The Human League,
Roy Ayers,
Johnny Clarke,
The Vogues,
Buzzcocks,
The Evens,
Rites of Spring,
Masters at Work,
Cameo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Barrington Levy,
Jeff Mills,
The Moleskins,
The Tremeloes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Chris Corsano,
Morten Harket,
Derrick Morgan,
Los Fastidios,
Connie Case,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jawbox,
The Cowsills,
David McCallum,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Move,
Young Marble Giants,
The New Christs,
X-101,
Jeff Lynne,
Byron Stingily,
ABC,
Terry Callier,
Echospace,
ABBA,
The Mojo Men,
Gong,
New Order,
Lightning Bolt,
Arab on Radar,
Eddi Front,
PIL,
The Beau Brummels,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Slits,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.