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 Nigeria and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marmalade to the rock 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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Dave Gahan,
Jacob Miller,
Guru Guru,
Sun Ra,
The J.B.'s,
Al Stewart,
Magma,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
K-Klass,
The United States of America,
LL Cool J,
New York Dolls,
Theoretical Girls,
Soft Machine,
Quadrant,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cluster,
Drexciya,
Black Flag,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vladislav Delay,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Main Source,
Brand Nubian,
Nik Kershaw,
the Germs,
Agitation Free,
Alice Coltrane,
Supertramp,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Modern Lovers,
Eve St. Jones,
Junior Murvin,
Ponytail,
The Gories,
Tears for Fears,
John Foxx,
Sandy B,
The Gun Club,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Five Americans,
Subhumans,
Roy Ayers,
Maurizio,
Byron Stingily,
F. McDonald,
The New Christs,
Heaven 17,
Flipper,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash,
Accadde A,
Smog,
Moby Grape,
Lucky Dragons,
Buzzcocks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Byrd,
The Victims,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.