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 Armenia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slick Rick to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Silicon Teens,
John Holt,
Loose Ends,
Whodini,
Eurythmics,
The Walker Brothers,
Prince Buster,
Motorama,
D'Angelo,
Eve St. Jones,
Roy Ayers,
FM Einheit,
Lakeside,
David McCallum,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Leonard Cohen,
Cheater Slicks,
Quando Quango,
Babytalk,
Wings,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Surgeon,
The Gun Club,
The Litter,
Archie Shepp,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dave Gahan,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Pretty Things,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ornette Coleman,
Young Marble Giants,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Maurizio,
Donald Byrd,
The Martian,
Spoonie Gee,
Boredoms,
The Mummies,
Underground Resistance,
Procol Harum,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Barracudas,
Aswad,
Camberwell Now,
Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
New York Dolls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aaron Thompson,
One Last Wish,
Yusef Lateef,
Marvin Gaye,
MC5,
The Young Rascals,
The Gories,
Roxette,
The Slackers,
The Happenings,
Yellowson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.