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 United Kingdom and from Calgary.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Crispian St. Peters to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
D'Angelo,
Aural Exciters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxy Music,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crooked Eye,
Danielle Patucci,
Fear,
These Immortal Souls,
Sugar Minott,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Enemy,
Tubeway Army,
The Buckinghams,
Marvin Gaye,
The Red Krayola,
The Cowsills,
The Sonics,
Toni Rubio,
The Last Poets,
Todd Terry,
Camberwell Now,
Thompson Twins,
Jandek,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joe Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
The Raincoats,
Sällskapet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mark Hollis,
the Germs,
Crash Course in Science,
The Gun Club,
Procol Harum,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Freddie Wadling,
This Heat,
Ten City,
Pantytec,
The Barracudas,
Piero Umiliani,
The Beau Brummels,
Porter Ricks,
CMW,
Pylon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ludus,
Oneida,
Jesper Dahlback,
Guru Guru,
Anakelly,
Gichy Dan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rosa Yemen,
The Leaves,
The Move,
Ossler,
The Durutti Column,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.