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 Georgia and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Glasgow.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 The Divine Comedy to the techno 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Barbara Tucker,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Guru Guru,
Los Fastidios,
Rhythm & Sound,
Flash Fearless,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Siglo XX,
Stetsasonic,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
cv313,
La Düsseldorf,
The Slits,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Aswad,
Icehouse,
F. McDonald,
The Dirtbombs,
Skaos,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sugar Minott,
Parry Music,
John Lydon,
Chris Corsano,
Arab on Radar,
FM Einheit,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Adolescents,
MC5,
Animal Collective,
The Dead C,
Depeche Mode,
Sonic Youth,
Buzzcocks,
Grey Daturas,
Shuggie Otis,
Dave Gahan,
Groovy Waters,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Bar-Kays,
Pierre Henry,
Bill Near,
DJ Sneak,
Index,
Deadbeat,
Cheater Slicks,
Marine Girls,
Procol Harum,
Anthony Braxton,
The Raincoats,
Underground Resistance,
Audionom,
Dennis Brown,
Eric Dolphy,
Lindisfarne,
Toni Rubio,
The Offenders,
Boogie Down Productions,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.