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 El Salvador and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Cure to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Knickerbockers,
Grauzone,
Second Layer,
Stiv Bators,
Ten City,
the Human League,
Qualms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Golliwogs,
Dark Day,
The Busters,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Remains,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Blackbyrds,
Steve Hackett,
Judy Mowatt,
Quadrant,
The Toasters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Altered Images,
Terry Callier,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Con Funk Shun,
Piero Umiliani,
The Cramps,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nik Kershaw,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Negative Approach,
The Gladiators,
Derrick May,
The Skatalites,
Blake Baxter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soulsonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Danielle Patucci,
Colin Newman,
Lucky Dragons,
New Age Steppers,
Black Flag,
Eric B and Rakim,
Barrington Levy,
The Dave Clark Five,
These Immortal Souls,
MC5,
Bootsy Collins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Count Five,
The Cowsills,
Radiohead,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Slits,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.