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 Malta and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes 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 Unrelated Segments to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erasure,
Funky Four + One,
The Wake,
Skarface,
Ultra Naté,
Roger Hodgson,
Negative Approach,
Yaz,
Brothers Johnson,
Monolake,
Visage,
Bad Manners,
Vladislav Delay,
The Skatalites,
Aloha Tigers,
Youth Brigade,
Public Image Ltd.,
The United States of America,
Man Eating Sloth,
Glenn Branca,
Can,
The Gun Club,
Absolute Body Control,
The Tremeloes,
Bang On A Can,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Half Japanese,
Desert Stars,
The Index,
Arab on Radar,
Dennis Brown,
Derrick Morgan,
UT,
Smog,
Urselle,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sonic Youth,
Steve Hackett,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wolf Eyes,
OOIOO,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mummies,
Tubeway Army,
Shoche,
Malaria!,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scientists,
Procol Harum,
PIL,
Patti Smith,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Coltrane,
Bootsy Collins,
Sun Ra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Foxx,
Laurel Aitken,
Sparks,
Niagra,
the Soft Cell,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.