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 Estonia and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Hong Kong.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Moss Icon,
Johnny Clarke,
Q and Not U,
Echospace,
Chris & Cosey,
John Cale,
Crime,
Lindisfarne,
Albert Ayler,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Vainqueur,
Bob Dylan,
Lower 48,
Wings,
Little Man,
Eurythmics,
Girls At Our Best!,
Popol Vuh,
Deadbeat,
Lightning Bolt,
The Star Department,
Dark Day,
MDC,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
Charles Mingus,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fuzztones,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fugazi,
ABBA,
Skarface,
The Gories,
KRS-One,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Kinks,
X-101,
Mo-Dettes,
Matthew Halsall,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scrapy,
Tom Boy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Smog,
Jawbox,
Newcleus,
Kool Moe Dee,
Inner City,
Goldenarms,
Derrick Morgan,
Zapp,
the Soft Cell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cheater Slicks,
Silicon Teens,
Alison Limerick,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Vladislav Delay,
Colin Newman,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.