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 Cape Verde and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Khruangbin,
Stetsasonic,
Skarface,
Ponytail,
Pagans,
Absolute Body Control,
Fatback Band,
Duran Duran,
Ituana,
LL Cool J,
Scion,
Symarip,
Carl Craig,
Hasil Adkins,
Marcia Griffiths,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Y Pants,
These Immortal Souls,
Blancmange,
Magazine,
CMW,
Fela Kuti,
The Pretty Things,
Intrusion,
Boz Scaggs,
Ossler,
The Star Department,
Tres Demented,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rosa Yemen,
Rekid,
Jeff Lynne,
Dennis Brown,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Names,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Parry Music,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Schoolly D,
Josef K,
Al Stewart,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eli Mardock,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fluxion,
Simply Red,
Danielle Patucci,
Minutemen,
Patti Smith,
John Lydon,
Cymande,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Anakelly,
Gabor Szabo,
the Soft Cell,
Bluetip,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Organ, Organ, Organ, Organ.
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.