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 Georgia and from London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Davy DMX to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Ohio Players,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lower 48,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Saccharine Trust,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tomorrow,
Pharoah Sanders,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sister Nancy,
Peter and Kerry,
Gerry Rafferty,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ossler,
Ice-T,
Mo-Dettes,
Todd Rundgren,
Maurizio,
DJ Style,
Bill Wells,
Deakin,
Wally Richardson,
Groovy Waters,
Hot Snakes,
The Searchers,
Graham Central Station,
Alice Coltrane,
Barclay James Harvest,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fat Boys,
CMW,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Happenings,
Carl Craig,
the Bar-Kays,
Avey Tare,
The Electric Prunes,
Susan Cadogan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Man Parrish,
The Invisible,
Bluetip,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Birthday Party,
PIL,
Jeff Mills,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Harmonia,
EPMD,
the Sonics,
The Stooges,
Guru Guru,
Siglo XX,
Country Teasers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.