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 the UAE and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Index to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
The Dead C,
Wally Richardson,
Scratch Acid,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dawn Penn,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joey Negro,
Basic Channel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Anthony Braxton,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Adolescents,
Don Cherry,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Martian,
Little Man,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Colin Newman,
Drexciya,
The Evens,
Rufus Thomas,
Neu!,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Starr,
The Sisters of Mercy,
MC5,
Easy Going,
Stiv Bators,
Minutemen,
The Fugs,
Pagans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
D'Angelo,
Monks,
Sandy B,
The Pretty Things,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terry Callier,
JFA,
The Kinks,
John Holt,
The Moody Blues,
Nico,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Thompson Twins,
Al Stewart,
Funkadelic,
Sällskapet,
Patti Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Animal Collective,
Q and Not U,
Goldenarms,
David Axelrod,
Nirvana,
Outsiders,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cheater Slicks,
Judy Mowatt,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.