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 Jordan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Ohio Players to the crunk 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brand Nubian,
K-Klass,
Chris Corsano,
Sexual Harrassment,
Dual Sessions,
Robert Görl,
10cc,
Eurythmics,
Masters at Work,
The J.B.'s,
Das Ding,
Warsaw,
Model 500,
Absolute Body Control,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lalann,
Wolf Eyes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gang Green,
Howard Jones,
Grauzone,
Cluster,
The Young Rascals,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Crash Course in Science,
Saccharine Trust,
The Wake,
Roxy Music,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ponytail,
Shoche,
Interpol,
Easy Going,
Frankie Knuckles,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Shuggie Otis,
Man Parrish,
Sound Behaviour,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soul II Soul,
The Offenders,
the Human League,
One Last Wish,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tubeway Army,
Lower 48,
Danielle Patucci,
Ten City,
Motorama,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Metal Thangz,
Trumans Water,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dave Gahan,
Monolake,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.