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 Panama and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 Joyce Sims to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Niagra,
Josef K,
Groovy Waters,
Tres Demented,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed,
Altered Images,
T.S.O.L.,
Quando Quango,
Magma,
Lightning Bolt,
Yaz,
The Monks,
Pylon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Wolf Eyes,
Fatback Band,
The Cure,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dennis Brown,
Pole,
John Foxx,
Piero Umiliani,
Schoolly D,
Jawbox,
Scan 7,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Chris Corsano,
Technova,
Derrick Morgan,
Hardrive,
Pagans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Symarip,
Franke,
Joyce Sims,
Lebanon Hanover,
China Crisis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kerrie Biddell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Underground Resistance,
The Gap Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Matthew Bourne,
The Cramps,
Sugar Minott,
Sound Behaviour,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Skarface,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Visage,
Mission of Burma,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Flesh Eaters,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.