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 Norway 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Minny Pops to the jazz 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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Johnny Osbourne,
Amon Düül II,
Traffic Nightmare,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Deepchord,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nas,
Pet Shop Boys,
Kerri Chandler,
The Standells,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Byron Stingily,
Unrelated Segments,
Andrew Hill,
Pussy Galore,
Sixth Finger,
Japan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Arthur Verocai,
PIL,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Dirtbombs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Audionom,
Pharoah Sanders,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Niagra,
Negative Approach,
T. Rex,
Harmonia,
The Buckinghams,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fatback Band,
Althea and Donna,
The Smoke,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
La Düsseldorf,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
John Holt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
CMW,
Bootsy Collins,
Circle Jerks,
Spoonie Gee,
Buzzcocks,
Donny Hathaway,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Golliwogs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scrapy,
Yazoo,
The Gap Band,
One Last Wish,
Marc Almond,
Franke,
Robert Hood,
OOIOO,
Skarface,
Max Romeo,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.