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 Egypt and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Vogues to the dance 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Black Moon,
the Normal,
Hot Snakes,
Brand Nubian,
Fela Kuti,
Moebius,
Reuben Wilson,
Magma,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Subhumans,
Sun Ra,
The Zeros,
Index,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Heaven 17,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Suicide,
a-ha,
Derrick May,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Moby Grape,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gong,
Lungfish,
Rhythm & Sound,
This Heat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Knickerbockers,
F. McDonald,
The Modern Lovers,
ABBA,
The Divine Comedy,
Junior Murvin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Style,
Franke,
Steve Hackett,
Rufus Thomas,
Ossler,
Rapeman,
Barry Ungar,
Scrapy,
Oneida,
Donald Byrd,
Ten City,
Whodini,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lucky Dragons,
June of 44,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
DNA,
the Association,
Youth Brigade,
Neu!,
New Age Steppers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.