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 Argentina 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a synthesizer 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 linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
The Selecter,
The Saints,
The Standells,
Pagans,
L. Decosne,
Anakelly,
Schoolly D,
Whodini,
Lou Christie,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Evens,
The Mummies,
Josef K,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New Age Steppers,
Con Funk Shun,
Throbbing Gristle,
Colin Newman,
Bad Manners,
Gong,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Star Department,
Steve Hackett,
The Gladiators,
Rod Modell,
The Toasters,
Todd Rundgren,
Nation of Ulysses,
David Axelrod,
Pylon,
The Cramps,
Terrestrial Tones,
Glenn Branca,
Lungfish,
Radiohead,
Sonny Sharrock,
Howard Jones,
Kayak,
Pole,
Soul Sonic Force,
Suicide,
The Busters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mr. Review,
Nas,
The Cure,
Animal Collective,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fela Kuti,
Bronski Beat,
The Gories,
Hashim,
Reuben Wilson,
Lalann,
Rotary Connection,
The Velvet Underground,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Real Kids,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.