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 United Kingdom and from Edmonton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Slick Rick 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
LL Cool J,
Cymande,
Royal Trux,
Darondo,
Zero Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Intrusion,
Kevin Saunderson,
Andrew Hill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Faust,
The Mojo Men,
The Fall,
David Bowie,
Lightning Bolt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kayak,
Q and Not U,
Lower 48,
Funkadelic,
Erasure,
Pantytec,
cv313,
The Fugs,
The Toasters,
Moebius,
Sugar Minott,
Derrick May,
John Cale,
Aswad,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Kinks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eve St. Jones,
Terry Callier,
Michelle Simonal,
Judy Mowatt,
Stetsasonic,
Al Stewart,
The Index,
Cybotron,
Quadrant,
Cecil Taylor,
Can,
Thee Headcoats,
Arthur Verocai,
Main Source,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Average White Band,
Yazoo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Subhumans,
Banda Bassotti,
Niagra,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ponytail,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Letta Mbulu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rakim,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.