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 China and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar 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 China Crisis to the rock 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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Reagan Youth,
Cybotron,
The Neon Judgement,
Sound Behaviour,
Jacques Brel,
Matthew Halsall,
Rotary Connection,
Roger Hodgson,
DNA,
Altered Images,
Ponytail,
The Gap Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Moebius,
The Stooges,
Alison Limerick,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Faraquet,
Bobby Sherman,
Wolf Eyes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Blackbyrds,
Mandrill,
Infiniti,
The Motions,
Trumans Water,
OOIOO,
Warsaw,
Quando Quango,
The Beau Brummels,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Brick,
Graham Central Station,
Neu!,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lungfish,
Amazonics,
The Moleskins,
Gabor Szabo,
Alphaville,
Crooked Eye,
Cheater Slicks,
Terry Callier,
Cluster,
Tubeway Army,
Ronan,
Khruangbin,
Hoover,
Marine Girls,
B.T. Express,
Rhythm & Sound,
Loose Ends,
Stereo Dub,
Funky Four + One,
Bobby Womack,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Andrew Hill,
Gregory Isaacs,
Idris Muhammad,
Monolake,
U.S. Maple,
Jimmy McGriff,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.