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 Jordan and from Houston.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco 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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Ronnie Foster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Circle Jerks,
Eric Dolphy,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
Average White Band,
The Victims,
Tubeway Army,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gang Green,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thompson Twins,
Henry Cow,
the Human League,
Dawn Penn,
Lucky Dragons,
Niagra,
The Names,
Scratch Acid,
The Pop Group,
Kerri Chandler,
The Pretty Things,
Jacques Brel,
Minnie Riperton,
Pulsallama,
World's Most,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Moody Blues,
Fugazi,
Lightning Bolt,
10cc,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aswad,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cluster,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mo-Dettes,
L. Decosne,
Surgeon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Guru Guru,
Camberwell Now,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bronski Beat,
The Velvet Underground,
Crispy Ambulance,
Barry Ungar,
Skaos,
Chrome,
Silicon Teens,
Japan,
The Standells,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Evens,
The Selecter,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.