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 Iraq and from London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fat Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Blossom Toes,
Dennis Brown,
the Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
Radiohead,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Banda Bassotti,
Sparks,
The Modern Lovers,
Stereo Dub,
Chrome,
Boredoms,
The Mojo Men,
Gang Green,
Jacques Brel,
The J.B.'s,
The Stooges,
Iggy Pop,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Cell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gregory Isaacs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drexciya,
The Moody Blues,
The Durutti Column,
Eddi Front,
The Fuzztones,
Bush Tetras,
Das Ding,
Tears for Fears,
Lucky Dragons,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jeff Lynne,
Sonic Youth,
DJ Style,
The Mummies,
Sam Rivers,
Mr. Review,
Ornette Coleman,
Ohio Players,
The Motions,
Janne Schatter,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bronski Beat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cheater Slicks,
Model 500,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marvin Gaye,
Neu!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cybotron,
The Cure,
Judy Mowatt,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Tremeloes,
Spandau Ballet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.