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 Kyrgyzstan and from Tokyo.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Donald Byrd,
Derrick Morgan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mars,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DJ Style,
Altered Images,
Nirvana,
Scan 7,
Donny Hathaway,
The Buckinghams,
The Count Five,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Outsiders,
Hoover,
Vainqueur,
The Sound,
Sex Pistols,
Public Image Ltd.,
Unrelated Segments,
Neil Young,
The Fall,
The Monochrome Set,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Erasure,
Newcleus,
The Tremeloes,
Jeff Lynne,
The Mummies,
The Techniques,
Negative Approach,
Piero Umiliani,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Brothers Johnson,
Amon Düül,
Ludus,
The Index,
Lou Christie,
Crash Course in Science,
the Association,
Black Pus,
Gichy Dan,
Average White Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Delta 5,
Barrington Levy,
Goldenarms,
Nico,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Carl Craig,
Tim Buckley,
Stiv Bators,
AZ,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pole,
The Mojo Men,
Organ,
Sixth Finger,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.