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 Mexico and from Woodstock.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin 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 Scrapy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Scrapy,
Maurizio,
Piero Umiliani,
Joy Division,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delta 5,
Monolake,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Stetsasonic,
Von Mondo,
Radio Birdman,
The Index,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Toasters,
Donny Hathaway,
Ponytail,
Henry Cow,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Terry Callier,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joe Finger,
Parry Music,
Loose Ends,
Eli Mardock,
Traffic Nightmare,
John Coltrane,
The Evens,
Fluxion,
Matthew Bourne,
The Associates,
The Saints,
Dave Gahan,
Alice Coltrane,
Unrelated Segments,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Amazonics,
MC5,
Ronan,
Fat Boys,
cv313,
Peter & Gordon,
Rod Modell,
Pulsallama,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Techniques,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stockholm Monsters,
Prince Buster,
Visage,
Panda Bear,
Franke,
The Music Machine,
Main Source,
Eden Ahbez,
Hashim,
Soul II Soul,
Mandrill,
Wings,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.