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 Mozambique and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Television to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Roxy Music,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mission of Burma,
Minutemen,
Maleditus Sound,
Brand Nubian,
Oblivians,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Slackers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dave Gahan,
The Knickerbockers,
John Lydon,
Arcadia,
Rod Modell,
Das Ding,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rekid,
Flash Fearless,
R.M.O.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Doors,
Depeche Mode,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Offenders,
Ten City,
Banda Bassotti,
Boz Scaggs,
Mad Mike,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Swans,
The Gun Club,
UT,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pantaleimon,
Bobby Byrd,
Rotary Connection,
Fluxion,
Surgeon,
Reagan Youth,
World's Most,
DJ Style,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Moby Grape,
Glenn Branca,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Names,
The Victims,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lindisfarne,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terry Callier,
Amazonics,
Wolf Eyes,
The Buckinghams,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Easy Going,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.