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 Greece and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Talk Talk to the punk 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DNA,
Ronnie Foster,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Sherman,
Camouflage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swell Maps,
The Music Machine,
Erasure,
The Doors,
Bootsy Collins,
Japan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Roger Hodgson,
Lakeside,
Alphaville,
Lindisfarne,
Stiv Bators,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sex Pistols,
The Motions,
In Retrospect,
Dorothy Ashby,
Anthony Braxton,
Bluetip,
Brick,
The Birthday Party,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Flash Fearless,
Robert Wyatt,
Sound Behaviour,
Radiopuhelimet,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Slits,
Sister Nancy,
John Foxx,
Darondo,
Sixth Finger,
Aaron Thompson,
Country Teasers,
Khruangbin,
Barry Ungar,
The Blues Magoos,
The Shadows of Knight,
Con Funk Shun,
Symarip,
The Smoke,
Section 25,
The Vogues,
Hot Snakes,
Terry Callier,
Arthur Verocai,
Groovy Waters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Radio Birdman,
Al Stewart,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.