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 Czech Republic and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
Babytalk,
Massinfluence,
The Modern Lovers,
Ornette Coleman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Toni Rubio,
Fear,
This Heat,
Todd Terry,
Slick Rick,
X-101,
The Count Five,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Country Teasers,
Boredoms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tomorrow,
The Zeros,
The Motions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
a-ha,
The Fuzztones,
Eric Copeland,
Chris Corsano,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Grass Roots,
the Human League,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
X-Ray Spex,
Motorama,
Jacques Brel,
Oneida,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Cramps,
Gichy Dan,
Sister Nancy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Johnny Osbourne,
Isaac Hayes,
Procol Harum,
Nils Olav,
Josef K,
Mo-Dettes,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Selecter,
Agent Orange,
Y Pants,
Roxy Music,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Move,
Heaven 17,
ABBA,
cv313,
The Doors,
Crispy Ambulance,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.