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 Kiribati and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the disco 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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Moby Grape,
John Foxx,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Hashim,
R.M.O.,
New York Dolls,
Maleditus Sound,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joe Finger,
Monks,
Erasure,
Kas Product,
F. McDonald,
Pierre Henry,
KRS-One,
Donny Hathaway,
Quadrant,
Rod Modell,
Marvin Gaye,
A Certain Ratio,
Derrick Morgan,
Jerry's Kids,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wasted Youth,
Jeru the Damaja,
Subhumans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Procol Harum,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Parry Music,
David Axelrod,
Jacob Miller,
Lakeside,
Absolute Body Control,
Oblivians,
Prince Buster,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ultimate Spinach,
Vainqueur,
The Slackers,
the Germs,
Johnny Clarke,
The Raincoats,
Toni Rubio,
Qualms,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kayak,
Ponytail,
Rufus Thomas,
Lightning Bolt,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Smiths,
The Leaves,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Alice Coltrane,
Junior Murvin,
cv313,
Ronnie Foster,
Charles Mingus,
Blossom Toes,
Second Layer,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.