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 Tanzania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Toronto.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rod Modell to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis 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?
Lou Reed,
Monolake,
Bill Near,
Pussy Galore,
Von Mondo,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Germs,
Suburban Knight,
Junior Murvin,
Ronan,
Funky Four + One,
Blossom Toes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flipper,
Cymande,
The Moleskins,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Sneak,
Yellowson,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Seeds,
Laurel Aitken,
The Cramps,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Knickerbockers,
Jeff Mills,
Isaac Hayes,
Guru Guru,
Blancmange,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gap Band,
The Buckinghams,
Maurizio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DJ Style,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lightning Bolt,
Yusef Lateef,
The Move,
The Blues Magoos,
Second Layer,
Qualms,
Malaria!,
Bootsy Collins,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Hoover,
Ten City,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Gladiators,
The Moody Blues,
Fatback Band,
Visage,
Davy DMX,
Mad Mike,
Shoche,
The J.B.'s,
Arab on Radar,
The Index,
Smog,
Harmonia,
Al Stewart,
Black Moon,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.