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 Palau and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Magazine to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Prince Buster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arab on Radar,
A Certain Ratio,
Joe Smooth,
Stereo Dub,
The Seeds,
The Young Rascals,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Sound,
Cal Tjader,
Audionom,
Depeche Mode,
Dark Day,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Reagan Youth,
Tres Demented,
Roxy Music,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Kinks,
The Gap Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yusef Lateef,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mark Hollis,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Harry Pussy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Thompson Twins,
Cameo,
The Cramps,
Absolute Body Control,
Prince Buster,
Pylon,
Qualms,
Idris Muhammad,
Con Funk Shun,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Monks,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Second Layer,
The Invisible,
Main Source,
Aaron Thompson,
Black Pus,
Japan,
The Misunderstood,
Pet Shop Boys,
Television Personalities,
Agitation Free,
Iggy Pop,
Blossom Toes,
K-Klass,
The Sonics,
Donald Byrd,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.