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 Guatemala and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Morten Harket to the jazz 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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
The Red Krayola,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ralphi Rosario,
Chris & Cosey,
Mission of Burma,
H. Thieme,
Harmonia,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Laurel Aitken,
David Bowie,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Vladislav Delay,
Neu!,
Yazoo,
The Mojo Men,
Main Source,
Absolute Body Control,
Hasil Adkins,
Blancmange,
Judy Mowatt,
Scan 7,
Hardrive,
Outsiders,
Tres Demented,
The Saints,
Brass Construction,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lower 48,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Little Man,
The Selecter,
Lalann,
Pere Ubu,
Surgeon,
Cameo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cramps,
Archie Shepp,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pierre Henry,
Arab on Radar,
The Skatalites,
Ultra Naté,
The Pretty Things,
Kenny Larkin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sun City Girls,
T. Rex,
Ten City,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.