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 Sweden and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Drexciya to the punk 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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Darondo,
Desert Stars,
Audionom,
China Crisis,
Amon Düül II,
Moby Grape,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
LL Cool J,
Jimmy McGriff,
Masters at Work,
Outsiders,
Bauhaus,
PIL,
Scientists,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Crooked Eye,
Gil Scott Heron,
Loose Ends,
Altered Images,
Soft Cell,
UT,
Boogie Down Productions,
MDC,
Television,
R.M.O.,
Ken Boothe,
Eden Ahbez,
Nils Olav,
Hasil Adkins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Sherman,
Davy DMX,
Pere Ubu,
Yusef Lateef,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pussy Galore,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Fuzztones,
Rekid,
T. Rex,
In Retrospect,
Pylon,
Q65,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed,
Subhumans,
Scan 7,
David McCallum,
Piero Umiliani,
Ituana,
Pole,
John Holt,
Sister Nancy,
Unwound,
Sam Rivers,
Faraquet,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Index,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.