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 Turkey and from Edmonton.
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 Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Oppenheimer Analysis to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Brand Nubian,
The Pop Group,
Byron Stingily,
Electric Prunes,
X-Ray Spex,
David McCallum,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Swans,
Camberwell Now,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
This Heat,
Stiv Bators,
Lalo Schifrin,
OOIOO,
Das Ding,
Lungfish,
Josef K,
Monolake,
The Searchers,
Skaos,
Vladislav Delay,
Kool Moe Dee,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pulsallama,
Scion,
Negative Approach,
Absolute Body Control,
Duran Duran,
Colin Newman,
The Leaves,
Cecil Taylor,
Nas,
Ken Boothe,
Chris & Cosey,
Thompson Twins,
The Seeds,
Tommy Roe,
Flash Fearless,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Fugs,
Funky Four + One,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
KRS-One,
Eden Ahbez,
Second Layer,
The Sonics,
Infiniti,
Mark Hollis,
Parry Music,
Black Bananas,
Charles Mingus,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Gladiators,
Rosa Yemen,
10cc,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mr. Review,
Soul II Soul,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.