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 Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin 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 China Crisis to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy 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?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Human League,
Massinfluence,
Alice Coltrane,
Skriet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Qualms,
Gerry Rafferty,
EPMD,
Tomorrow,
DJ Sneak,
Danielle Patucci,
Rhythm & Sound,
Quando Quango,
Negative Approach,
OOIOO,
Chris Corsano,
Country Teasers,
Fad Gadget,
Henry Cow,
The American Breed,
The Evens,
Flipper,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Detroit Cobras,
Peter & Gordon,
Talk Talk,
Dark Day,
Newcleus,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brick,
Mission of Burma,
Joy Division,
This Heat,
Ohio Players,
Radiopuhelimet,
Masters at Work,
Fat Boys,
Soulsonic Force,
Pierre Henry,
ABBA,
Bill Wells,
The Blues Magoos,
D'Angelo,
Von Mondo,
The Stooges,
Fluxion,
Bang On A Can,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Germs,
Shoche,
Ronnie Foster,
The Offenders,
Livin' Joy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Gladiators,
The Kinks,
Joe Smooth,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.