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 Qatar and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Trumans Water 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Flock of Seagulls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Junior Murvin,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Names,
Altered Images,
Flamin' Groovies,
The United States of America,
Main Source,
World's Most,
Lalann,
Bang On A Can,
Sonic Youth,
Danielle Patucci,
Anakelly,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Intrusion,
Andrew Hill,
Robert Wyatt,
Dorothy Ashby,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Leaves,
Bluetip,
Vainqueur,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Trojans,
UT,
In Retrospect,
Hashim,
Pantaleimon,
Y Pants,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ken Boothe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Freddie Wadling,
the Normal,
Janne Schatter,
Organ,
The Cramps,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grey Daturas,
Ultra Naté,
10cc,
The Zeros,
Arcadia,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Dead C,
Mo-Dettes,
Marc Almond,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alison Limerick,
Barrington Levy,
Sound Behaviour,
Urselle,
Kayak,
Rosa Yemen,
Second Layer,
June of 44,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Blake Baxter,
Lou Christie,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.