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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 oboe 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 Alton Ellis 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
MC5,
The Victims,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Blake Baxter,
kango's stein massive,
Sam Rivers,
In Retrospect,
The Names,
Ludus,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Offenders,
The Fuzztones,
Traffic Nightmare,
Newcleus,
Crooked Eye,
Glenn Branca,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Guru Guru,
Warsaw,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Loose Ends,
Cecil Taylor,
Quando Quango,
Shoche,
CMW,
Tears for Fears,
the Sonics,
Television,
Janne Schatter,
Kerri Chandler,
John Lydon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacques Brel,
Outsiders,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Make Up,
Alison Limerick,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mo-Dettes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Au Pairs,
Basic Channel,
Tommy Roe,
The Blues Magoos,
Organ,
Parry Music,
David Bowie,
The Young Rascals,
The Mojo Men,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Warren Ellis,
The Gladiators,
Piero Umiliani,
Ken Boothe,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.