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 Austria and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Pole to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Brand Nubian,
Tres Demented,
Boz Scaggs,
The Tremeloes,
Severed Heads,
Negative Approach,
kango's stein massive,
Glenn Branca,
Barry Ungar,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gang Gang Dance,
Parry Music,
ABC,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sun Ra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Jacob Miller,
Terry Callier,
Bob Dylan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scratch Acid,
Faust,
The Moody Blues,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Letta Mbulu,
Andrew Hill,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Loose Ends,
Reuben Wilson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Tom Boy,
Smog,
Freddie Wadling,
Visage,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ronnie Foster,
Toni Rubio,
Soul II Soul,
Roger Hodgson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sällskapet,
Fela Kuti,
Juan Atkins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
AZ,
Kurtis Blow,
The Smiths,
Joensuu 1685,
Fear,
Lindisfarne,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Human League,
Morten Harket,
Eric Dolphy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.