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 Bolivia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Harmonia to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Pantaleimon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eurythmics,
Darondo,
ABBA,
Parry Music,
Minor Threat,
Deadbeat,
Basic Channel,
Boogie Down Productions,
Terry Callier,
Little Man,
One Last Wish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Shuggie Otis,
The Dirtbombs,
Brick,
kango's stein massive,
Panda Bear,
CMW,
Television,
The Fire Engines,
Bootsy Collins,
T.S.O.L.,
The Velvet Underground,
Black Moon,
Royal Trux,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Urselle,
Saccharine Trust,
The Shadows of Knight,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
R.M.O.,
the Slits,
Agent Orange,
Country Teasers,
Arcadia,
Inner City,
Technova,
Hoover,
Hardrive,
The Techniques,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Raincoats,
Popol Vuh,
Donny Hathaway,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Make Up,
Kerri Chandler,
Section 25,
Youth Brigade,
Brand Nubian,
Eric Copeland,
Supertramp,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kas Product,
The Doors,
Rod Modell,
Magma,
Warren Ellis,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.