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 Korea North and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba 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 The Shadows of Knight to the dance 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 H. Thieme. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Sound Behaviour,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minny Pops,
Eric B and Rakim,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Groovy Waters,
John Foxx,
Sun City Girls,
Alphaville,
Pierre Henry,
Trumans Water,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joe Smooth,
Ultra Naté,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Derrick Morgan,
The Blackbyrds,
Monks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
John Coltrane,
Dual Sessions,
Carl Craig,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
June Days,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
EPMD,
Kerri Chandler,
The Mojo Men,
The Residents,
Rufus Thomas,
Howard Jones,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Deepchord,
a-ha,
Flash Fearless,
Hashim,
Fluxion,
Boz Scaggs,
KRS-One,
The Moleskins,
Eddi Front,
The Evens,
Technova,
Jeff Lynne,
Marvin Gaye,
The Index,
Essential Logic,
The Pretty Things,
Los Fastidios,
Crooked Eye,
John Holt,
Yellowson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Easy Going,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Procol Harum,
The Wake,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.