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 Israel and from Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column 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 crunk 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 oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Darondo,
Nick Fraelich,
A Certain Ratio,
Ultravox,
The Blackbyrds,
The Move,
Pylon,
Alison Limerick,
Flash Fearless,
The United States of America,
Skaos,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Average White Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scratch Acid,
Gang Green,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minnie Riperton,
Jeff Lynne,
Outsiders,
Animal Collective,
Don Cherry,
The Moleskins,
Rotary Connection,
Sarah Menescal,
Deepchord,
JFA,
Ronnie Foster,
Dave Gahan,
The Cowsills,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Real Kids,
Soul Sonic Force,
Arab on Radar,
The Searchers,
Kayak,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sonic Youth,
48th St. Collective,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Toasters,
Soulsonic Force,
Curtis Mayfield,
These Immortal Souls,
Glenn Branca,
This Heat,
John Cale,
Reuben Wilson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fugs,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Birthday Party,
Crooked Eye,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Flipper,
Carl Craig,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Sherman,
kango's stein massive,
Guru Guru,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.