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 Turkey and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Paris.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Altered Images to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boredoms,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eden Ahbez,
Scan 7,
Guru Guru,
Sound Behaviour,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gories,
Alison Limerick,
Hasil Adkins,
Aaron Thompson,
Section 25,
Alton Ellis,
The Slackers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Blues Magoos,
The Residents,
Pere Ubu,
The J.B.'s,
Lower 48,
Mandrill,
Boogie Down Productions,
Groovy Waters,
Angry Samoans,
Rhythm & Sound,
PIL,
Lightning Bolt,
Tropical Tobacco,
New Age Steppers,
Nils Olav,
Little Man,
The Moody Blues,
Magazine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Velvet Underground,
The Gap Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Monochrome Set,
The Divine Comedy,
Television,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kurtis Blow,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Chris Corsano,
Sam Rivers,
The Leaves,
Agent Orange,
K-Klass,
Ornette Coleman,
The Sonics,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eric Copeland,
Scion,
The Modern Lovers,
The Wake,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.