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 Suriname and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the crunk 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Country Teasers,
The Modern Lovers,
Soul II Soul,
Au Pairs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soulsonic Force,
Q and Not U,
The Music Machine,
Massinfluence,
D'Angelo,
David McCallum,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Barrington Levy,
The Mojo Men,
Sällskapet,
Joy Division,
the Germs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
James White and The Blacks,
Swell Maps,
Adolescents,
Stiv Bators,
Soft Cell,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Radio Birdman,
PIL,
Black Bananas,
The Fortunes,
John Lydon,
The Skatalites,
Wolf Eyes,
Cameo,
Junior Murvin,
Camouflage,
One Last Wish,
Unrelated Segments,
X-101,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Christie,
Nico,
Popol Vuh,
ABC,
Sixth Finger,
Avey Tare,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sarah Menescal,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Hardrive,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Byrd,
The Angels of Light,
Tom Boy,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Cure,
Parry Music,
Godley & Creme,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.