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 Brunei and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Wally Richardson to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Adolescents,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cowsills,
Leonard Cohen,
Erykah Badu,
DJ Sneak,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fatback Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joey Negro,
Procol Harum,
Moss Icon,
Nils Olav,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Japan,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Happenings,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lalo Schifrin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crooked Eye,
Scratch Acid,
Ice-T,
Cybotron,
The Skatalites,
In Retrospect,
Nirvana,
Accadde A,
Minny Pops,
Funky Four + One,
Marmalade,
Aswad,
Wasted Youth,
Swell Maps,
The Move,
Ronan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Funkadelic,
Sound Behaviour,
Franke,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cymande,
Arthur Verocai,
Theoretical Girls,
Oneida,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Christie,
Hashim,
Underground Resistance,
Maurizio,
10cc,
Todd Terry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Smog,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Flesh Eaters,
Delta 5,
Angry Samoans,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.