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 Argentina and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 David Bowie 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 Audionom to the jazz 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Johnny Clarke,
Harpers Bizarre,
Steve Hackett,
Pharoah Sanders,
Minor Threat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Saccharine Trust,
Dennis Brown,
Letta Mbulu,
Hasil Adkins,
David McCallum,
Jacob Miller,
Maurizio,
Crash Course in Science,
Glenn Branca,
New York Dolls,
The Cramps,
Gabor Szabo,
Roy Ayers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
KRS-One,
Section 25,
Oneida,
It's A Beautiful Day,
AZ,
The Modern Lovers,
Desert Stars,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pole,
Stereo Dub,
Marshall Jefferson,
Blake Baxter,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cameo,
Avey Tare,
Hardrive,
Heaven 17,
X-102,
Brothers Johnson,
Accadde A,
Suicide,
Organ,
Bizarre Inc.,
Quadrant,
LL Cool J,
Alton Ellis,
The Skatalites,
Jacques Brel,
Tim Buckley,
Urselle,
Bad Manners,
Masters at Work,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soulsonic Force,
Schoolly D,
The Mojo Men,
The Last Poets,
Kurtis Blow,
Sugar Minott,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.