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 Bahrain and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 güiro 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 JFA to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Mr. Review,
Pulsallama,
The Grass Roots,
Y Pants,
Peter and Kerry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Half Japanese,
Yusef Lateef,
The Skatalites,
Flipper,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Siglo XX,
Sonny Sharrock,
Michelle Simonal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Youth Brigade,
The Misunderstood,
Black Pus,
Negative Approach,
Livin' Joy,
Television,
Roxette,
Donald Byrd,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sound Behaviour,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Dead C,
Robert Görl,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Connie Case,
Kenny Larkin,
John Holt,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kaleidoscope,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Blackbyrds,
The Angels of Light,
Eurythmics,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kurtis Blow,
cv313,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sun Ra,
Jeff Mills,
Malaria!,
The Monochrome Set,
Alton Ellis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jawbox,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Young Marble Giants,
Don Cherry,
Lou Christie,
Anthony Braxton,
Dual Sessions,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.