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 Colombia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the crunk 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Rufus Thomas,
Television Personalities,
The Smoke,
Sound Behaviour,
Jerry's Kids,
Bang On A Can,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pussy Galore,
Outsiders,
Aaron Thompson,
Colin Newman,
Barrington Levy,
JFA,
FM Einheit,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobbi Humphrey,
New Order,
Jawbox,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nas,
D'Angelo,
Delta 5,
Index,
The Fuzztones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Agitation Free,
Can,
the Association,
KRS-One,
Bobby Sherman,
Kerri Chandler,
Gregory Isaacs,
Desert Stars,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Todd Terry,
Sexual Harrassment,
the Bar-Kays,
Brothers Johnson,
The Cowsills,
Soul II Soul,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ultravox,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Beau Brummels,
Blake Baxter,
Masters at Work,
Chris & Cosey,
Basic Channel,
The Mojo Men,
The New Christs,
Swell Maps,
Boogie Down Productions,
Prince Buster,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Pus,
The Zeros,
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.