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 Egypt and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Martian to the grunge 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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Young Rascals,
Derrick May,
Liliput,
Q65,
Grauzone,
The Move,
Slave,
Bill Near,
Das Ding,
Dual Sessions,
The Angels of Light,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Moon,
PIL,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Blancmange,
Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Chrome,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric B and Rakim,
Todd Terry,
Outsiders,
EPMD,
The Gun Club,
Inner City,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Groovy Waters,
Nils Olav,
Marcia Griffiths,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aswad,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Andrew Hill,
Barrington Levy,
The Seeds,
Au Pairs,
Derrick Morgan,
Delta 5,
Eve St. Jones,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jerry's Kids,
Howard Jones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joensuu 1685,
Albert Ayler,
Reagan Youth,
Max Romeo,
Ronan,
Desert Stars,
The Tremeloes,
Neu!,
cv313,
R.M.O.,
Eli Mardock,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.