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 Qatar and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Siglo XX 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Desert Stars,
The Move,
Camberwell Now,
Eli Mardock,
The Cowsills,
Motorama,
Q and Not U,
Outsiders,
Circle Jerks,
Toni Rubio,
Matthew Halsall,
Kurtis Blow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deepchord,
Franke,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Slick Rick,
Mantronix,
ABC,
Inner City,
Masters at Work,
Vainqueur,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Unrelated Segments,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marine Girls,
Chris Corsano,
Animal Collective,
Lindisfarne,
Alison Limerick,
Underground Resistance,
The Monochrome Set,
U.S. Maple,
Gichy Dan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eddi Front,
Kenny Larkin,
Parry Music,
The Electric Prunes,
Ronnie Foster,
Darondo,
Stetsasonic,
Siglo XX,
Fela Kuti,
This Heat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gang Green,
Ossler,
Nirvana,
Can,
UT,
The Blackbyrds,
Con Funk Shun,
Isaac Hayes,
Whodini,
Technova,
Bill Wells,
Roxy Music,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Simply Red,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.