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 Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 ABBA to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Grandmaster Flash,
Animal Collective,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suburban Knight,
Ice-T,
Adolescents,
The Seeds,
Boredoms,
Easy Going,
Chris Corsano,
Model 500,
The Fall,
The Cramps,
The Doobie Brothers,
Smog,
Grauzone,
Radiohead,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Shuggie Otis,
Eric Copeland,
The Techniques,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Vainqueur,
Arcadia,
Aural Exciters,
Graham Central Station,
Delta 5,
Minnie Riperton,
Al Stewart,
Pantytec,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Zeros,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jesper Dahlback,
Patti Smith,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fluxion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flipper,
Quadrant,
A Certain Ratio,
These Immortal Souls,
Jerry's Kids,
LL Cool J,
Gastr Del Sol,
Unwound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
James White and The Blacks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bill Near,
Joe Finger,
Sarah Menescal,
Todd Terry,
Reuben Wilson,
Ohio Players,
Freddie Wadling,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.