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 Ireland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Gong to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
The Doors,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Delta 5,
A Certain Ratio,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Sherman,
The Misunderstood,
Ice-T,
Ludus,
Fela Kuti,
Scott Walker,
Robert Hood,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Oneida,
Index,
The Offenders,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eli Mardock,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young,
Supertramp,
Yellowson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Tubeway Army,
The Real Kids,
Livin' Joy,
Basic Channel,
The Sonics,
Monks,
The Seeds,
Monolake,
Gang of Four,
Liliput,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amazonics,
Yusef Lateef,
Joey Negro,
Warsaw,
Maurizio,
F. McDonald,
Davy DMX,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Malaria!,
Arcadia,
Panda Bear,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marc Almond,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Alison Limerick,
Idris Muhammad,
New York Dolls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nirvana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fear,
David McCallum,
Eddi Front,
PIL,
Cal Tjader,
Little Man,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.