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 East Timor and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator 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 Neu! to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Cybotron,
Bronski Beat,
Peter and Kerry,
A Certain Ratio,
The Residents,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed,
The Wake,
Jawbox,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Johnny Clarke,
Theoretical Girls,
Q65,
Vladislav Delay,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Man Parrish,
Johnny Osbourne,
Negative Approach,
Sixth Finger,
Bootsy Collins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Aswad,
OOIOO,
Robert Wyatt,
The Monks,
Spandau Ballet,
Henry Cow,
Rekid,
Sarah Menescal,
Todd Rundgren,
The Raincoats,
Nas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Saints,
Visage,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Intrusion,
AZ,
Bizarre Inc.,
Guru Guru,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cameo,
Marine Girls,
Curtis Mayfield,
Suicide,
Royal Trux,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Country Teasers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Barbara Tucker,
Be Bop Deluxe,
F. McDonald,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.