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 Lithuania and from Spokane.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 D'Angelo to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Excepter,
Michelle Simonal,
The Raincoats,
The Black Dice,
David Axelrod,
Radiohead,
Icehouse,
Morten Harket,
Porter Ricks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lucky Dragons,
Sandy B,
The Searchers,
the Swans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Essential Logic,
Tim Buckley,
The Evens,
Sister Nancy,
48th St. Collective,
Skaos,
Connie Case,
Mo-Dettes,
ABC,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Stockholm Monsters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Supertramp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Alarm Clocks,
Crash Course in Science,
Pierre Henry,
Clear Light,
Amazonics,
Hot Snakes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lalo Schifrin,
a-ha,
The Knickerbockers,
Mantronix,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terry Callier,
the Slits,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Echospace,
Goldenarms,
The Gories,
Idris Muhammad,
Sound Behaviour,
Lower 48,
Derrick Morgan,
Eve St. Jones,
Electric Prunes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Skriet,
Frankie Knuckles,
Archie Shepp,
Gerry Rafferty,
10cc,
D'Angelo,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.