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 Bolivia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin 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 John Holt to the grunge 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Roxy Music,
Khruangbin,
Connie Case,
Reuben Wilson,
The Names,
Wally Richardson,
Japan,
Average White Band,
Janne Schatter,
The Martian,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Circle Jerks,
Anakelly,
Marine Girls,
Robert Görl,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Cale,
Delon & Dalcan,
David Axelrod,
Moss Icon,
Clear Light,
Lungfish,
Public Enemy,
Gang Starr,
The Modern Lovers,
Grey Daturas,
L. Decosne,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Electric Prunes,
The Monochrome Set,
Mars,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang Green,
Lakeside,
Minutemen,
Section 25,
Kool Moe Dee,
Harmonia,
Lyres,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Roxette,
Severed Heads,
Electric Light Orchestra,
cv313,
The Shadows of Knight,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sugar Minott,
Tubeway Army,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Intrusion,
Heaven 17,
Minny Pops,
Blancmange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Danielle Patucci,
Cymande,
A Certain Ratio,
Animal Collective,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.