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 Kosovo and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Connie Case to the grunge 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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fad Gadget,
The J.B.'s,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun City Girls,
Robert Görl,
The Cramps,
Bronski Beat,
Mission of Burma,
Scan 7,
Q and Not U,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rufus Thomas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Remains,
The Last Poets,
Mandrill,
Bobby Sherman,
JFA,
Alice Coltrane,
The Vogues,
The Wake,
In Retrospect,
The Electric Prunes,
Rites of Spring,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Funky Four + One,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mo-Dettes,
the Bar-Kays,
John Coltrane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marine Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Crash Course in Science,
the Fania All-Stars,
Idris Muhammad,
Leonard Cohen,
Metal Thangz,
LL Cool J,
48th St. Collective,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joey Negro,
Bill Wells,
Nirvana,
Liliput,
Harpers Bizarre,
Country Teasers,
B.T. Express,
Quadrant,
World's Most,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Loose Ends,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lalo Schifrin,
Boredoms,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Gun Club,
Kas Product,
Das Ding,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.