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 Tuvalu and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Monks to the jazz 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Byron Stingily,
Crash Course in Science,
JFA,
Lakeside,
Idris Muhammad,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
June Days,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Red Krayola,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Grey Daturas,
Neu!,
Laurel Aitken,
Barclay James Harvest,
Second Layer,
Lalann,
Janne Schatter,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rufus Thomas,
Simply Red,
The Busters,
Kayak,
Magma,
LL Cool J,
Robert Görl,
Scott Walker,
The Grass Roots,
Theoretical Girls,
Wasted Youth,
The Gories,
The Young Rascals,
the Sonics,
The Golliwogs,
Joensuu 1685,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dual Sessions,
Japan,
Bad Manners,
Don Cherry,
Crime,
The New Christs,
Roxy Music,
David Axelrod,
Funky Four + One,
Depeche Mode,
Animal Collective,
Glambeats Corp.,
Maurizio,
Circle Jerks,
Slave,
The Buckinghams,
Smog,
Angry Samoans,
Talk Talk,
Lower 48,
Negative Approach,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.