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 Israel and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Skaos to the electroclash 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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
The Divine Comedy,
PIL,
Swell Maps,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Remains,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scientists,
Crime,
Flash Fearless,
Joyce Sims,
Model 500,
The Associates,
The Smoke,
The Motions,
Subhumans,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Y Pants,
Stockholm Monsters,
Crash Course in Science,
Pulsallama,
The Gladiators,
Au Pairs,
The Gap Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brothers Johnson,
The Move,
Idris Muhammad,
Stereo Dub,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronan,
Boredoms,
Gong,
Funky Four + One,
Moss Icon,
Sister Nancy,
Section 25,
Byron Stingily,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Skatalites,
June Days,
Second Layer,
Chris & Cosey,
Goldenarms,
Guru Guru,
The Doobie Brothers,
Minnie Riperton,
Mad Mike,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Leonard Cohen,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Easy Going,
the Sonics,
Young Marble Giants,
Delta 5,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.