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 Pakistan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin 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 Ponytail to the crunk 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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
La Düsseldorf,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fad Gadget,
Arthur Verocai,
Q and Not U,
Tubeway Army,
Blancmange,
Ultra Naté,
Brand Nubian,
Symarip,
Radio Birdman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Slits,
Excepter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pantytec,
Marmalade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ralphi Rosario,
Shuggie Otis,
Blake Baxter,
Funky Four + One,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Albert Ayler,
the Sonics,
Guru Guru,
Alton Ellis,
Jandek,
Camberwell Now,
Make Up,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Monochrome Set,
The Slackers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Brothers Johnson,
The Moleskins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
June of 44,
Jawbox,
The Detroit Cobras,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gabor Szabo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joy Division,
Skaos,
The Mojo Men,
The Moody Blues,
a-ha,
Warsaw,
Das Ding,
Simply Red,
Nirvana,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joyce Sims,
The Human League,
Zapp,
Crispy Ambulance,
China Crisis,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.