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 Niger and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Essential Logic to the jazz 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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Royal Trux,
X-102,
Panda Bear,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Funky Four + One,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Byrd,
Max Romeo,
Crispy Ambulance,
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Mantronix,
Ten City,
Motorama,
David Axelrod,
The Human League,
Junior Murvin,
Ronan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tears for Fears,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Normal,
The Dead C,
Drive Like Jehu,
Anthony Braxton,
The Move,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cowsills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
U.S. Maple,
Jandek,
The Raincoats,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
This Heat,
Crash Course in Science,
Fatback Band,
The Music Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Susan Cadogan,
Wings,
Sonic Youth,
New York Dolls,
Joensuu 1685,
Marcia Griffiths,
Howard Jones,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fear,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Brothers Johnson,
The Dirtbombs,
Brass Construction,
ABBA,
Gichy Dan,
The Standells,
The Zeros,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bill Wells,
Surgeon,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.