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 Ghana and from London.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Eden Ahbez to the crunk 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
The Red Krayola,
Absolute Body Control,
Deepchord,
Unrelated Segments,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Detroit Cobras,
Janne Schatter,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alison Limerick,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Todd Terry,
The Raincoats,
Icehouse,
K-Klass,
Brand Nubian,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
AZ,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aaron Thompson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
PIL,
Crash Course in Science,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sun Ra,
Nick Fraelich,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Section 25,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scion,
Darondo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Popol Vuh,
Procol Harum,
World's Most,
Wings,
Nas,
Das Ding,
Isaac Hayes,
Tomorrow,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Robert Wyatt,
Bob Dylan,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Remains,
Tommy Roe,
The Victims,
Rakim,
The Black Dice,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roxy Music,
Lalo Schifrin,
ABC,
F. McDonald,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.