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 Egypt and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum 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 Todd Rundgren to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
World's Most,
Mandrill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Guru Guru,
Soulsonic Force,
Ronan,
Howard Jones,
Saccharine Trust,
Jawbox,
Godley & Creme,
Pantaleimon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Gories,
Alison Limerick,
Loose Ends,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Junior Murvin,
cv313,
Monks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Oblivians,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Al Stewart,
Dead Boys,
Tommy Roe,
Q65,
The Fugs,
Chrome,
Blossom Toes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Quantec,
R.M.O.,
Idris Muhammad,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Evens,
Technova,
Half Japanese,
Ice-T,
Kerrie Biddell,
Graham Central Station,
Alphaville,
Bobby Womack,
Black Moon,
PIL,
Masters at Work,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bad Manners,
Porter Ricks,
Erasure,
Camberwell Now,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Doobie Brothers,
Goldenarms,
Pantytec,
Fela Kuti,
One Last Wish,
10cc,
Kas Product,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.