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 States and from Milan.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 Hoover to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Joyce Sims,
The Happenings,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pantaleimon,
Monolake,
Tropical Tobacco,
Judy Mowatt,
Gil Scott Heron,
Archie Shepp,
Rotary Connection,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dead Boys,
The Real Kids,
Eli Mardock,
The Five Americans,
Duran Duran,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soft Cell,
Tres Demented,
Gang of Four,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Q and Not U,
Excepter,
Skaos,
Parry Music,
Sam Rivers,
EPMD,
Groovy Waters,
One Last Wish,
New Age Steppers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brass Construction,
Wire,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fela Kuti,
Absolute Body Control,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jandek,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doobie Brothers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Faraquet,
Reuben Wilson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aswad,
Prince Buster,
Neil Young,
Bad Manners,
Reagan Youth,
Amon Düül,
The Durutti Column,
The Beau Brummels,
Ornette Coleman,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hasil Adkins,
Jerry's Kids,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.