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 Kenya and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Procol Harum to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Slits. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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?
Al Stewart,
John Cale,
Eden Ahbez,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ossler,
The Sound,
Essential Logic,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Colin Newman,
Ronnie Foster,
Minor Threat,
Prince Buster,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Motions,
Procol Harum,
Lalann,
Eric Copeland,
Sonic Youth,
Dawn Penn,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flipper,
The Leaves,
Slave,
Soft Machine,
Ohio Players,
Roger Hodgson,
Patti Smith,
Sam Rivers,
Rites of Spring,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Au Pairs,
The Seeds,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
kango's stein massive,
Mo-Dettes,
Heaven 17,
The Happenings,
In Retrospect,
Newcleus,
Byron Stingily,
Spoonie Gee,
The Shadows of Knight,
Leonard Cohen,
Todd Terry,
Max Romeo,
Adolescents,
Loose Ends,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cheater Slicks,
The Divine Comedy,
Minny Pops,
The Fuzztones,
R.M.O.,
Duran Duran,
The United States of America,
Isaac Hayes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Average White Band,
Sister Nancy,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.