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 Tanzania and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb 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 Oneida to the grime 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Cecil Taylor,
New Order,
The Motions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Bananas,
Rod Modell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
John Coltrane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Walker Brothers,
The Blackbyrds,
The Moody Blues,
Maleditus Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
The Alarm Clocks,
Negative Approach,
The Electric Prunes,
The Smiths,
Grauzone,
The Standells,
Echospace,
The Move,
Hashim,
Simply Red,
Alison Limerick,
Amon Düül II,
Icehouse,
DJ Sneak,
Saccharine Trust,
Moby Grape,
John Lydon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
David Bowie,
The Vogues,
Frankie Knuckles,
PIL,
Technova,
Spoonie Gee,
Robert Wyatt,
The Seeds,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sun City Girls,
Fatback Band,
The Golliwogs,
Pussy Galore,
The Slackers,
Joey Negro,
Alton Ellis,
Drexciya,
Public Enemy,
Excepter,
Niagra,
Radiohead,
Minnie Riperton,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
LL Cool J,
Mark Hollis,
Half Japanese,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.