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 Uruguay and from Shanghai.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Lakeside to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Lydon,
Bob Dylan,
Black Sheep,
Banda Bassotti,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nils Olav,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Panda Bear,
Magma,
DJ Sneak,
The Stooges,
Rotary Connection,
10cc,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Little Man,
Robert Wyatt,
Vladislav Delay,
Ituana,
The Gun Club,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The New Christs,
Fluxion,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Black Dice,
Mission of Burma,
Vainqueur,
The Invisible,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ken Boothe,
The Wake,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Junior Murvin,
Sarah Menescal,
Avey Tare,
L. Decosne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scott Walker,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Unwound,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marvin Gaye,
Von Mondo,
Sound Behaviour,
Visage,
CMW,
In Retrospect,
Chris & Cosey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Derrick May,
Mark Hollis,
John Coltrane,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Morten Harket,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.