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 Tanzania and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Sonics,
the Germs,
Traffic Nightmare,
One Last Wish,
La Düsseldorf,
Absolute Body Control,
Kerrie Biddell,
Carl Craig,
Echospace,
David McCallum,
The Busters,
Surgeon,
Livin' Joy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Evens,
Suicide,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rotary Connection,
Nas,
David Axelrod,
Electric Prunes,
Sight & Sound,
Model 500,
Judy Mowatt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lungfish,
E-Dancer,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mars,
Simply Red,
Roxette,
Bluetip,
Minor Threat,
Radio Birdman,
Pulsallama,
The Young Rascals,
Aloha Tigers,
Minny Pops,
Soft Cell,
Dark Day,
Althea and Donna,
The Monochrome Set,
Harry Pussy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Supertramp,
Mark Hollis,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Patti Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dead C,
10cc,
Con Funk Shun,
Toni Rubio,
Ohio Players,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.