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 Cuba and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Circle Jerks to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
David Axelrod,
Gabor Szabo,
Oblivians,
Deadbeat,
Pole,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Velvet Underground,
Ossler,
The Neon Judgement,
The Index,
Wasted Youth,
The Smoke,
Echospace,
Pierre Henry,
Visage,
Warren Ellis,
Black Moon,
David McCallum,
Moss Icon,
Depeche Mode,
Howard Jones,
Alison Limerick,
Amon Düül II,
Boz Scaggs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Toasters,
Joe Smooth,
Lightning Bolt,
the Normal,
Juan Atkins,
The Slackers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jawbox,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Cure,
Donald Byrd,
The Associates,
Barbara Tucker,
Vainqueur,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
PIL,
Pantytec,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jacques Brel,
Don Cherry,
Von Mondo,
D'Angelo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Excepter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
David Bowie,
Black Flag,
Flash Fearless,
Schoolly D,
John Cale,
Shoche,
Soul Sonic Force,
Amon Düül,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.