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 Colombia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer 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 Nation of Ulysses to the grime 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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Public Image Ltd.,
Byron Stingily,
Cal Tjader,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Y Pants,
Minor Threat,
Althea and Donna,
Eurythmics,
Reagan Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Banda Bassotti,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Human League,
The Wake,
Blancmange,
Excepter,
Mr. Review,
Q65,
Wasted Youth,
Kas Product,
The Gories,
Groovy Waters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unrelated Segments,
Barry Ungar,
Aswad,
Carl Craig,
Lakeside,
David Bowie,
The Human League,
Archie Shepp,
Blake Baxter,
Eddi Front,
Swell Maps,
The Cure,
Trumans Water,
Nico,
Sex Pistols,
Deepchord,
Interpol,
Rotary Connection,
Godley & Creme,
New Order,
Marcia Griffiths,
Quantec,
The Doors,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Hill,
The Neon Judgement,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lou Christie,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nirvana,
Con Funk Shun,
Main Source,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eric B and Rakim,
Aaron Thompson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.