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 Japan and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
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 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 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 Pylon to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Alison Limerick,
Black Flag,
Royal Trux,
The Blues Magoos,
Simply Red,
Radio Birdman,
Faust,
X-101,
The Golliwogs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Heaven 17,
Agitation Free,
Josef K,
China Crisis,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Near,
Fatback Band,
Soul II Soul,
Magma,
The Invisible,
Danielle Patucci,
Freddie Wadling,
Absolute Body Control,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Godley & Creme,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Stereo Dub,
Charles Mingus,
Gang Green,
Sam Rivers,
Traffic Nightmare,
LL Cool J,
Guru Guru,
Andrew Hill,
Fad Gadget,
Bronski Beat,
Sister Nancy,
Stiv Bators,
Maleditus Sound,
Arthur Verocai,
Avey Tare,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Modern Lovers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jandek,
John Holt,
Smog,
The Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Pylon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Organ,
Al Stewart,
Aloha Tigers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
MC5,
Supertramp,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Monks,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.