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 Tuvalu and from Manila.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kenny Larkin to the punk 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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Inner City,
K-Klass,
Sound Behaviour,
Section 25,
Babytalk,
Delta 5,
Deakin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marmalade,
Surgeon,
The Gories,
Drexciya,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Andrew Hill,
The Star Department,
John Cale,
EPMD,
Minor Threat,
The Monks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Infiniti,
Stockholm Monsters,
Maurizio,
The Skatalites,
Darondo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jesper Dahlback,
Patti Smith,
Toni Rubio,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun City Girls,
Arcadia,
Sam Rivers,
Aswad,
Los Fastidios,
Jawbox,
Pharoah Sanders,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Erasure,
Wire,
Negative Approach,
Michelle Simonal,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Freddie Wadling,
Soft Cell,
Depeche Mode,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hoover,
The Gun Club,
Iggy Pop,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Count Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television,
Carl Craig,
The Music Machine,
Marine Girls,
The Beau Brummels,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.