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 Kenya and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Amazonics,
EPMD,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gong,
Iggy Pop,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jacob Miller,
Radiopuhelimet,
David Axelrod,
the Germs,
June Days,
The Seeds,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
PIL,
the Soft Cell,
Fluxion,
Zapp,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang Starr,
Rhythm & Sound,
Circle Jerks,
F. McDonald,
Sister Nancy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Godley & Creme,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ultravox,
Roxette,
Silicon Teens,
Urselle,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jacques Brel,
James White and The Blacks,
Janne Schatter,
Sam Rivers,
Siglo XX,
The Leaves,
The Five Americans,
Desert Stars,
Hasil Adkins,
Pulsallama,
Danielle Patucci,
Derrick Morgan,
the Association,
AZ,
Dark Day,
Neu!,
Country Teasers,
Excepter,
Porter Ricks,
Ronnie Foster,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bush Tetras,
Gabor Szabo,
Ice-T,
The Saints,
Agitation Free,
Angry Samoans,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.