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 Norway and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Zero Boys to the techno 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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rod Modell,
Stiv Bators,
Rotary Connection,
Lee Hazlewood,
Theoretical Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Slick Rick,
Gong,
Das Ding,
Marvin Gaye,
June Days,
Pole,
John Coltrane,
Organ,
Public Image Ltd.,
The J.B.'s,
Terry Callier,
Davy DMX,
Negative Approach,
Subhumans,
Bang On A Can,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Patti Smith,
This Heat,
Malaria!,
Bill Wells,
Jacob Miller,
Donald Byrd,
The Leaves,
The Human League,
The Gun Club,
The Fortunes,
Wasted Youth,
Wire,
Brick,
The Vogues,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed,
The Seeds,
Fluxion,
Kevin Saunderson,
Siglo XX,
Black Bananas,
The Velvet Underground,
Los Fastidios,
Pantytec,
Fela Kuti,
Q and Not U,
Moby Grape,
Dave Gahan,
D'Angelo,
Connie Case,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lungfish,
Anthony Braxton,
Sällskapet,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.