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 Luxembourg 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Donny Hathaway to the disco 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Roger Hodgson,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Slits,
Delta 5,
Organ,
Vainqueur,
Basic Channel,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wolf Eyes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Depeche Mode,
Erasure,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Iggy Pop,
Davy DMX,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cecil Taylor,
The Angels of Light,
Colin Newman,
Kerri Chandler,
Y Pants,
Yellowson,
The Young Rascals,
Nas,
John Cale,
Tres Demented,
ABBA,
Cybotron,
Black Pus,
Bobby Sherman,
Ituana,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Crooked Eye,
Tomorrow,
Archie Shepp,
The Barracudas,
KRS-One,
Wasted Youth,
Graham Central Station,
Moss Icon,
Matthew Bourne,
Johnny Clarke,
Metal Thangz,
The Cowsills,
Janne Schatter,
Cluster,
Reuben Wilson,
Althea and Donna,
PIL,
Idris Muhammad,
Pulsallama,
Stereo Dub,
Skarface,
Minor Threat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crime,
The Gap Band,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.