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 Korea South and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eden Ahbez to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Piero Umiliani,
Tomorrow,
Porter Ricks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Thompson Twins,
New Age Steppers,
D'Angelo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Blackbyrds,
Grauzone,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
David Bowie,
Negative Approach,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Image Ltd.,
Slick Rick,
Spandau Ballet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cameo,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ludus,
Godley & Creme,
Bill Wells,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Names,
Smog,
Joensuu 1685,
Bang On A Can,
Japan,
Pagans,
Technova,
Mantronix,
Scientists,
Ice-T,
Gong,
Tres Demented,
Flipper,
L. Decosne,
Jimmy McGriff,
Young Marble Giants,
The Residents,
Suicide,
Lakeside,
The Tremeloes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Intrusion,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Pretty Things,
Nico,
the Human League,
Procol Harum,
Banda Bassotti,
Groovy Waters,
Massinfluence,
Panda Bear,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Sherman,
X-102,
Khruangbin,
Prince Buster,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.