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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Captain Beefheart 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 The Neon Judgement to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
the Swans,
In Retrospect,
The Tremeloes,
Babytalk,
Jawbox,
The Smiths,
Nation of Ulysses,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tomorrow,
Camberwell Now,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aural Exciters,
Sexual Harrassment,
DNA,
Yusef Lateef,
The Selecter,
Michelle Simonal,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kayak,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Steve Hackett,
The Durutti Column,
The Shadows of Knight,
Anthony Braxton,
Lebanon Hanover,
Average White Band,
John Coltrane,
The Moleskins,
Soft Cell,
Piero Umiliani,
the Bar-Kays,
kango's stein massive,
Skriet,
Ronan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Index,
Public Enemy,
Q65,
The Fugs,
Jacob Miller,
Cymande,
Shuggie Otis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soulsonic Force,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed,
Shoche,
Gang Starr,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Isaac Hayes,
DJ Sneak,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maurizio,
Jandek,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Supertramp,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fat Boys,
Hoover,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.