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 Dominica and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare 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 Absolute Body Control to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Loose Ends,
The Music Machine,
Nas,
Leonard Cohen,
The Cramps,
Rod Modell,
Outsiders,
Surgeon,
X-Ray Spex,
Reagan Youth,
Electric Prunes,
Yazoo,
Slave,
Mars,
Isaac Hayes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Graham Central Station,
The Skatalites,
The Wake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Smog,
Alton Ellis,
Steve Hackett,
Grey Daturas,
Joensuu 1685,
Erasure,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Andrew Hill,
Swans,
Mad Mike,
Pantaleimon,
The Moody Blues,
Kerri Chandler,
Hoover,
Make Up,
Flash Fearless,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Circle Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ituana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T. Rex,
Guru Guru,
Drexciya,
the Sonics,
Tommy Roe,
The Divine Comedy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Soulsonic Force,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Swell Maps,
Kenny Larkin,
The New Christs,
Panda Bear,
Traffic Nightmare,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Birthday Party,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cybotron,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.