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 Singapore and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Rotary Connection to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Severed Heads. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Alice Coltrane,
Young Marble Giants,
Blake Baxter,
Cluster,
The Human League,
Public Image Ltd.,
Shoche,
Guru Guru,
Basic Channel,
Sister Nancy,
The Standells,
Intrusion,
Minor Threat,
Harmonia,
Godley & Creme,
The Mojo Men,
Ohio Players,
Ice-T,
AZ,
Bobby Byrd,
Sexual Harrassment,
Essential Logic,
Pulsallama,
Procol Harum,
Boogie Down Productions,
Little Man,
Pole,
The Cramps,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ossler,
Bob Dylan,
The Seeds,
The Saints,
Donny Hathaway,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Index,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
June of 44,
R.M.O.,
New York Dolls,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Grass Roots,
These Immortal Souls,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Hasil Adkins,
Marmalade,
Jeff Mills,
Silicon Teens,
Country Teasers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Amazonics,
Shuggie Otis,
Icehouse,
Nik Kershaw,
Max Romeo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Golliwogs,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.