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 Gabon and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Black Dice to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
The Kinks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Residents,
Rites of Spring,
Vainqueur,
Joey Negro,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bauhaus,
Zapp,
The Human League,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Green,
The Golliwogs,
Kas Product,
Darondo,
AZ,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Surgeon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scan 7,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Saints,
the Human League,
Mission of Burma,
The J.B.'s,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Offenders,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bill Wells,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eden Ahbez,
Technova,
Albert Ayler,
Aswad,
Icehouse,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tubeway Army,
Severed Heads,
X-101,
Max Romeo,
MC5,
Joy Division,
Joe Finger,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eve St. Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Swans,
Tres Demented,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jeff Lynne,
the Germs,
Soulsonic Force,
Fela Kuti,
Minor Threat,
Pole,
Faraquet,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.