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 Fiji and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 theremin 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 The Fugs to the dance 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 Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Tim Buckley,
This Heat,
Arcadia,
Kerri Chandler,
Symarip,
PIL,
Niagra,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scientists,
Donny Hathaway,
Radiohead,
Cecil Taylor,
Henry Cow,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kaleidoscope,
Fela Kuti,
Nas,
Derrick May,
Ronan,
The Grass Roots,
Section 25,
Warsaw,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cowsills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lindisfarne,
Zapp,
Sound Behaviour,
The Associates,
E-Dancer,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nico,
Whodini,
Parry Music,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Shuggie Otis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grey Daturas,
The Move,
Marvin Gaye,
Wings,
Suicide,
Dave Gahan,
The Detroit Cobras,
DNA,
Dark Day,
Kool Moe Dee,
Little Man,
DJ Style,
Jeff Lynne,
Kerrie Biddell,
The United States of America,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yusef Lateef,
MDC,
The Kinks,
Livin' Joy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalann,
Moby Grape,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.