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 Peru and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Q and Not U to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
The Happenings,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Youth Brigade,
Monolake,
Motorama,
The Gap Band,
Severed Heads,
The Trojans,
Cameo,
Sixth Finger,
The Beau Brummels,
Lalo Schifrin,
Siglo XX,
Negative Approach,
Fatback Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boz Scaggs,
The Buckinghams,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Swell Maps,
Sonic Youth,
The Techniques,
Silicon Teens,
Sam Rivers,
FM Einheit,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Seeds,
Television Personalities,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Audionom,
The Fortunes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Banda Bassotti,
Zapp,
Lower 48,
Pierre Henry,
Joyce Sims,
Graham Central Station,
Crash Course in Science,
Pantytec,
Archie Shepp,
Pylon,
Rotary Connection,
It's A Beautiful Day,
JFA,
Nirvana,
Bluetip,
Buzzcocks,
Harmonia,
L. Decosne,
Robert Hood,
10cc,
The Velvet Underground,
Gerry Rafferty,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.