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 Costa Rica and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Radiohead 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barry Ungar,
Q and Not U,
Cal Tjader,
Peter & Gordon,
Avey Tare,
The Residents,
Black Pus,
Babytalk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Harry Pussy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
David Axelrod,
Wasted Youth,
The Moody Blues,
Hashim,
Stockholm Monsters,
Andrew Hill,
Essential Logic,
Absolute Body Control,
Steve Hackett,
Jacob Miller,
kango's stein massive,
Kurtis Blow,
Anthony Braxton,
Qualms,
The Blues Magoos,
Curtis Mayfield,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mission of Burma,
The Knickerbockers,
A Certain Ratio,
X-101,
These Immortal Souls,
Young Marble Giants,
Hardrive,
Joe Smooth,
Dual Sessions,
Rod Modell,
Gang of Four,
Eric B and Rakim,
Youth Brigade,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Human League,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Technova,
Deadbeat,
Clear Light,
Barbara Tucker,
Todd Terry,
The Golliwogs,
Blossom Toes,
Von Mondo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Frankie Knuckles,
Underground Resistance,
China Crisis,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.