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 Mali and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Toronto.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Q65,
The Barracudas,
Robert Hood,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joe Finger,
Delta 5,
The Five Americans,
Rod Modell,
Leonard Cohen,
Symarip,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Byrd,
Amon Düül II,
Flamin' Groovies,
Quadrant,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bootsy Collins,
The Electric Prunes,
The Evens,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Silicon Teens,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Smiths,
Davy DMX,
Black Flag,
Pussy Galore,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ossler,
Graham Central Station,
Camberwell Now,
Robert Görl,
Basic Channel,
Deadbeat,
Section 25,
UT,
Hasil Adkins,
Bang On A Can,
Flash Fearless,
Metal Thangz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pantytec,
John Cale,
Yazoo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Judy Mowatt,
Morten Harket,
Monolake,
Ludus,
Skaos,
Faust,
The Cramps,
Marcia Griffiths,
Skriet,
Fugazi,
Minor Threat,
This Heat,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.