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 St Lucia and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bobby Byrd to the dance 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sexual Harrassment record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Hot Snakes,
ABC,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Animal Collective,
Funkadelic,
Boredoms,
Jesper Dahlback,
Heaven 17,
The Young Rascals,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stiv Bators,
Little Man,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jeff Mills,
the Soft Cell,
Agent Orange,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeru the Damaja,
Underground Resistance,
Basic Channel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Royal Trux,
Joyce Sims,
Smog,
The Stooges,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Babytalk,
Moebius,
Harmonia,
Erykah Badu,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
X-101,
Chrome,
Saccharine Trust,
Motorama,
Marine Girls,
Bobby Womack,
Blancmange,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Simply Red,
Vainqueur,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pulsallama,
Prince Buster,
Dave Gahan,
Gang Starr,
Aswad,
James White and The Blacks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Television Personalities,
Schoolly D,
E-Dancer,
Ituana,
Depeche Mode,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.