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 the UAE and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mo-Dettes to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Howard Jones,
Duran Duran,
Mr. Review,
Los Fastidios,
DNA,
Scion,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Juan Atkins,
Barclay James Harvest,
Public Enemy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Delon & Dalcan,
Moebius,
Neu!,
Kenny Larkin,
Depeche Mode,
Arab on Radar,
Roy Ayers,
X-101,
Moss Icon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eden Ahbez,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fela Kuti,
Television,
Basic Channel,
Echospace,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Count Five,
The Saints,
DJ Sneak,
Wolf Eyes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Index,
Talk Talk,
Television Personalities,
One Last Wish,
Model 500,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anakelly,
Pulsallama,
Clear Light,
The Mojo Men,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Faraquet,
Kayak,
Ten City,
Quando Quango,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Offenders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Royal Trux,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.