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 Slovenia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sugar Minott to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jandek,
Bluetip,
The Misunderstood,
Amon Düül,
Talk Talk,
Byron Stingily,
Banda Bassotti,
Urselle,
Lungfish,
The Motions,
Marine Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kaleidoscope,
Bauhaus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hot Snakes,
The Grass Roots,
June of 44,
Parry Music,
Funky Four + One,
Junior Murvin,
Rites of Spring,
The Evens,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Gap Band,
Sugar Minott,
Vladislav Delay,
The Cure,
Pylon,
Metal Thangz,
Grey Daturas,
The Buckinghams,
The Tremeloes,
Black Pus,
Jerry's Kids,
Jeru the Damaja,
Steve Hackett,
The Angels of Light,
Sixth Finger,
Nico,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Newcleus,
Section 25,
Al Stewart,
Tubeway Army,
The Pretty Things,
Robert Wyatt,
Maleditus Sound,
Amon Düül II,
Quantec,
Con Funk Shun,
Siglo XX,
Freddie Wadling,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Blues Magoos,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fugazi,
Fear,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.