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 Solomon Islands and from Calgary.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Negative Approach to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
June of 44,
Bob Dylan,
The Motions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Davy DMX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ice-T,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Deepchord,
Kenny Larkin,
Depeche Mode,
Patti Smith,
James White and The Blacks,
Rites of Spring,
Soft Cell,
Little Man,
Popol Vuh,
OOIOO,
Gastr Del Sol,
Symarip,
Prince Buster,
B.T. Express,
Letta Mbulu,
The Fortunes,
Mantronix,
Whodini,
Crime,
The Skatalites,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Remains,
Masters at Work,
Donald Byrd,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alton Ellis,
Sun City Girls,
T.S.O.L.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Reagan Youth,
Derrick Morgan,
Kerri Chandler,
Sandy B,
John Coltrane,
Subhumans,
ABC,
Aural Exciters,
Black Moon,
The Searchers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Techniques,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Warsaw,
Morten Harket,
Scion,
China Crisis,
Shuggie Otis,
Panda Bear,
Gabor Szabo,
Iggy Pop,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.