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 Armenia and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Groovy Waters to the techno 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Barry Ungar,
Easy Going,
Pharoah Sanders,
Boredoms,
Lightning Bolt,
Minor Threat,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Magma,
Lou Reed,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dave Gahan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rotary Connection,
D'Angelo,
John Cale,
Icehouse,
Eli Mardock,
Excepter,
Royal Trux,
Absolute Body Control,
Bootsy Collins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bobby Byrd,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Fear,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mr. Review,
Drexciya,
Simply Red,
Mark Hollis,
Ken Boothe,
E-Dancer,
Thompson Twins,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ossler,
Leonard Cohen,
X-101,
Nick Fraelich,
Eurythmics,
X-102,
Robert Wyatt,
Bad Manners,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Electric Prunes,
Japan,
Slick Rick,
The Durutti Column,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Residents,
Arthur Verocai,
Erasure,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Buckinghams,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ultra Naté,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crash Course in Science,
Avey Tare,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.