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 Maldives and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Subhumans,
Amazonics,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Anakelly,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nico,
Cymande,
Scratch Acid,
The Remains,
Mars,
Jeff Lynne,
Negative Approach,
Ultravox,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Monks,
Adolescents,
The Victims,
Kayak,
Amon Düül II,
New Order,
The Velvet Underground,
Barry Ungar,
Nick Fraelich,
Section 25,
Dual Sessions,
Judy Mowatt,
Chris Corsano,
Soul II Soul,
Aural Exciters,
Swell Maps,
Bluetip,
Graham Central Station,
Rotary Connection,
The Evens,
Glenn Branca,
Electric Prunes,
The Monochrome Set,
Brothers Johnson,
The Kinks,
Skaos,
Massinfluence,
Magma,
The American Breed,
Piero Umiliani,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
World's Most,
Mantronix,
Minny Pops,
Visage,
X-101,
Rakim,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bronski Beat,
Sarah Menescal,
Eddi Front,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tom Boy,
Joyce Sims,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.