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 Namibia and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joe Smooth to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joe Finger,
The Seeds,
Franke,
Fela Kuti,
Robert Görl,
Nik Kershaw,
The Beau Brummels,
Wolf Eyes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roy Ayers,
Easy Going,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gladiators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dennis Brown,
Gong,
Steve Hackett,
Barry Ungar,
Wally Richardson,
David Axelrod,
Stetsasonic,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lucky Dragons,
Niagra,
Suicide,
DJ Style,
The Evens,
Ultra Naté,
Howard Jones,
Metal Thangz,
Flipper,
Eddi Front,
Scientists,
Michelle Simonal,
Symarip,
Fatback Band,
Outsiders,
The Smiths,
Zapp,
Grauzone,
Radio Birdman,
The Young Rascals,
The Raincoats,
The Skatalites,
The Litter,
The Victims,
Peter and Kerry,
Masters at Work,
Minny Pops,
Reagan Youth,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Sherman,
Magma,
Kas Product,
Organ,
Gil Scott Heron,
Liliput,
The Slackers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.