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 Belarus and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mighty Diamonds to the jazz 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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
James White and The Blacks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Derrick May,
Bobby Sherman,
The Music Machine,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fad Gadget,
PIL,
The Skatalites,
The Gories,
Scientists,
The Flesh Eaters,
Stetsasonic,
Easy Going,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Main Source,
Kerrie Biddell,
Warren Ellis,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dawn Penn,
AZ,
Roxette,
Roy Ayers,
Alison Limerick,
Anakelly,
The Mummies,
Hashim,
Joe Smooth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Last Poets,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
B.T. Express,
Nirvana,
This Heat,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Index,
MDC,
Bauhaus,
Sound Behaviour,
the Sonics,
Mo-Dettes,
Essential Logic,
X-102,
The Sonics,
Interpol,
Robert Hood,
Q and Not U,
Eden Ahbez,
Jacob Miller,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brick,
Tubeway Army,
Alice Coltrane,
The Offenders,
Groovy Waters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Brass Construction,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.