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 Lebanon and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Second Layer to the disco 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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Babytalk,
The Techniques,
The Mummies,
Marmalade,
Freddie Wadling,
cv313,
Hashim,
Arthur Verocai,
Visage,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dawn Penn,
Public Enemy,
Hardrive,
Eli Mardock,
Skarface,
Morten Harket,
Monolake,
Yusef Lateef,
Rosa Yemen,
The Dave Clark Five,
Laurel Aitken,
Colin Newman,
Schoolly D,
Soft Machine,
Johnny Clarke,
Cybotron,
The Angels of Light,
the Germs,
The Monochrome Set,
Matthew Halsall,
Sparks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sällskapet,
Hot Snakes,
The Fortunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Residents,
X-102,
Byron Stingily,
The Human League,
Malaria!,
Make Up,
The Zeros,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Josef K,
The Young Rascals,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
CMW,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jerry's Kids,
The New Christs,
Simply Red,
Quando Quango,
The Victims,
Scott Walker,
Sandy B,
The Slackers,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.