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 Vanuatu and from New York.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Niagra to the crunk 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Avey Tare,
Soulsonic Force,
Con Funk Shun,
Nik Kershaw,
Sound Behaviour,
DNA,
Hasil Adkins,
The Neon Judgement,
JFA,
Anakelly,
Marshall Jefferson,
Spandau Ballet,
John Foxx,
Q65,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
La Düsseldorf,
Quadrant,
David McCallum,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Archie Shepp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hot Snakes,
The Beau Brummels,
Royal Trux,
Nils Olav,
John Coltrane,
EPMD,
Barbara Tucker,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Essential Logic,
the Association,
Crooked Eye,
The Monks,
Flipper,
Man Parrish,
Drive Like Jehu,
Das Ding,
Dead Boys,
Dave Gahan,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Womack,
Mission of Burma,
Model 500,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nick Fraelich,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kenny Larkin,
The Gladiators,
The Sonics,
Pet Shop Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David Axelrod,
Stockholm Monsters,
Outsiders,
Soul II Soul,
Black Flag,
The Music Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quando Quango,
Massinfluence,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.