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 Swaziland and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Winnipeg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 clarinet 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 Jacques Brel to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sparks,
Nas,
Ponytail,
the Sonics,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David Bowie,
Subhumans,
Albert Ayler,
Magma,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Alton Ellis,
Camberwell Now,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rod Modell,
The Vogues,
Soft Machine,
Sällskapet,
Skriet,
Little Man,
Ornette Coleman,
L. Decosne,
Vladislav Delay,
Althea and Donna,
Chris & Cosey,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Procol Harum,
Deepchord,
Johnny Osbourne,
Motorama,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dawn Penn,
Quando Quango,
ABC,
Severed Heads,
Soft Cell,
New Age Steppers,
Charles Mingus,
Jacques Brel,
Deadbeat,
Inner City,
Roger Hodgson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Main Source,
Roxy Music,
48th St. Collective,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
June of 44,
Joy Division,
JFA,
The Gories,
Bill Wells,
Tomorrow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dual Sessions,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The American Breed,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Lydon,
Lee Hazlewood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.