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 India and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Toasters 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
X-101,
X-102,
Chrome,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Average White Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lalann,
The Litter,
The Detroit Cobras,
Simply Red,
Arthur Verocai,
U.S. Maple,
Gang Starr,
Derrick May,
Pere Ubu,
Scott Walker,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Man Parrish,
Cluster,
Scan 7,
Royal Trux,
The Red Krayola,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Public Enemy,
Ice-T,
David Axelrod,
These Immortal Souls,
Fluxion,
Roxette,
Infiniti,
Fugazi,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Golliwogs,
Ornette Coleman,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sister Nancy,
New Age Steppers,
John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Slackers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Bananas,
Popol Vuh,
Slave,
Rites of Spring,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Skatalites,
Minny Pops,
Young Marble Giants,
The Doobie Brothers,
Hardrive,
Swell Maps,
the Sonics,
The Raincoats,
Smog,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.