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 Austria and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 organ 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 Drexciya to the grime 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Amon Düül II,
Essential Logic,
The Buckinghams,
Black Moon,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rufus Thomas,
The Wake,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Count Five,
Negative Approach,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joey Negro,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Con Funk Shun,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Groovy Waters,
Ultra Naté,
Absolute Body Control,
MC5,
Connie Case,
China Crisis,
Tubeway Army,
A Certain Ratio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Josef K,
Marvin Gaye,
Andrew Hill,
Eric Copeland,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Donny Hathaway,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joensuu 1685,
Yaz,
Fela Kuti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tomorrow,
Gil Scott Heron,
New Age Steppers,
Nirvana,
Faraquet,
B.T. Express,
ABBA,
This Heat,
Talk Talk,
The Associates,
The Dead C,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joyce Sims,
Sandy B,
Tom Boy,
Panda Bear,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
48th St. Collective,
Supertramp,
Kurtis Blow,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Leaves,
Porter Ricks,
Procol Harum,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.