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 Lebanon and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Normal. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Wally Richardson,
Arthur Verocai,
Al Stewart,
Rekid,
La Düsseldorf,
Joyce Sims,
Accadde A,
Stetsasonic,
Country Teasers,
Matthew Halsall,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Martian,
Don Cherry,
Dawn Penn,
Outsiders,
The Golliwogs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pole,
Joensuu 1685,
Lindisfarne,
Nils Olav,
Brothers Johnson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rod Modell,
Fear,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Happenings,
D'Angelo,
Television Personalities,
Ultravox,
Thee Headcoats,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ken Boothe,
Lightning Bolt,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Blackbyrds,
The Busters,
Livin' Joy,
Sound Behaviour,
Delta 5,
Jandek,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Piero Umiliani,
H. Thieme,
Alphaville,
Suburban Knight,
Neu!,
Mission of Burma,
Chrome,
KRS-One,
Spoonie Gee,
Drive Like Jehu,
Barclay James Harvest,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cameo,
Lucky Dragons,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Sherman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.