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 Japan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gang Green to the jazz 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Rosa Yemen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Japan,
Mantronix,
Soft Machine,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Seeds,
Sun Ra,
Pussy Galore,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Litter,
Deakin,
The Leaves,
Fluxion,
Infiniti,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pere Ubu,
Shuggie Otis,
In Retrospect,
The Cowsills,
Moebius,
Outsiders,
EPMD,
Model 500,
Second Layer,
Saccharine Trust,
Robert Wyatt,
Brothers Johnson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roxy Music,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sandy B,
Tomorrow,
Todd Rundgren,
Nation of Ulysses,
Skaos,
The Barracudas,
The Buckinghams,
Severed Heads,
Dual Sessions,
The Standells,
Inner City,
Iggy Pop,
Todd Terry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Average White Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Modern Lovers,
Ohio Players,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gap Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sex Pistols,
Au Pairs,
Deadbeat,
Pantaleimon,
Rakim,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.