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 Ethiopia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Bob Dylan to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every London Community Gospel Choir record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Morten Harket,
Terrestrial Tones,
Don Cherry,
Fela Kuti,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Q65,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magazine,
Scrapy,
Soul II Soul,
Sound Behaviour,
KRS-One,
Crime,
Roger Hodgson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bad Manners,
Saccharine Trust,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
Andrew Hill,
Steve Hackett,
Mark Hollis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kayak,
Crooked Eye,
Blossom Toes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The United States of America,
Nas,
Sonic Youth,
Panda Bear,
T.S.O.L.,
The Stooges,
Big Daddy Kane,
This Heat,
L. Decosne,
the Soft Cell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Chrome,
Adolescents,
The Smoke,
D'Angelo,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine,
Pantaleimon,
Amazonics,
Magma,
Deadbeat,
Ohio Players,
The Modern Lovers,
Basic Channel,
Harry Pussy,
Patti Smith,
Wolf Eyes,
Symarip,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tres Demented,
Curtis Mayfield,
Flash Fearless,
Mary Jane Girls,
Agitation Free,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.