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 Marshall Islands and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mexico City.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro 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 Godley & Creme to the funk 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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
New York Dolls,
The Slackers,
Susan Cadogan,
Tom Boy,
Funkadelic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
JFA,
Thompson Twins,
Brand Nubian,
Crooked Eye,
The Blackbyrds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Erykah Badu,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sixth Finger,
Parry Music,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bad Manners,
Zero Boys,
Steve Hackett,
Black Flag,
Soul II Soul,
Wolf Eyes,
Gong,
MDC,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scott Walker,
Howard Jones,
The Walker Brothers,
Bobby Sherman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Average White Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Byron Stingily,
Deakin,
Pylon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Index,
The New Christs,
Scientists,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Divine Comedy,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Von Mondo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Godley & Creme,
kango's stein massive,
Kevin Saunderson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Television,
Sonny Sharrock,
Laurel Aitken,
The Velvet Underground,
Slave,
Robert Wyatt,
DNA,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.