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 South Sudan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tehran.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Davy DMX to the jazz 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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Monolake,
Urselle,
The United States of America,
The Five Americans,
Avey Tare,
Little Man,
Man Parrish,
JFA,
Essential Logic,
The Young Rascals,
Rod Modell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cybotron,
Wolf Eyes,
Drexciya,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Birthday Party,
Dennis Brown,
Cal Tjader,
Underground Resistance,
Soulsonic Force,
The Misunderstood,
Joe Finger,
Roxy Music,
Robert Wyatt,
Eurythmics,
Barry Ungar,
Lee Hazlewood,
Index,
The Red Krayola,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marmalade,
Moby Grape,
Grey Daturas,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Human League,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rosa Yemen,
Pulsallama,
The Happenings,
Kerri Chandler,
Interpol,
Man Eating Sloth,
Loose Ends,
Quadrant,
The Gun Club,
John Coltrane,
Icehouse,
The Selecter,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Peter & Gordon,
CMW,
Bootsy Collins,
Smog,
The Divine Comedy,
Soul Sonic Force,
New York Dolls,
Gregory Isaacs,
Mantronix,
Amon Düül II,
Rotary Connection,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.