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 Somalia and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba 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 Surgeon to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Anthony Braxton,
Ronnie Foster,
Interpol,
Yellowson,
Absolute Body Control,
Yazoo,
UT,
Amon Düül,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
Stiv Bators,
Connie Case,
Lungfish,
The Durutti Column,
Jandek,
Mandrill,
Deakin,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Blancmange,
Funky Four + One,
Groovy Waters,
Niagra,
Man Parrish,
The Human League,
Reagan Youth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bobby Sherman,
Sällskapet,
Skarface,
Schoolly D,
Maleditus Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marmalade,
Peter & Gordon,
Leonard Cohen,
Amazonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Country Teasers,
Soft Machine,
Banda Bassotti,
The Martian,
Todd Terry,
Average White Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Christie,
Moebius,
Siglo XX,
Cecil Taylor,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Evens,
The Fortunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Reuben Wilson,
Arcadia,
Ten City,
Maurizio,
Dawn Penn,
Motorama,
Curtis Mayfield,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.