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 Tajikistan and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 snare 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 Lucky Dragons to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Swell Maps,
Joe Smooth,
OOIOO,
Eurythmics,
Public Enemy,
Loose Ends,
The Fuzztones,
Delta 5,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Desert Stars,
Pantaleimon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Buzzcocks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scientists,
D'Angelo,
Silicon Teens,
The Standells,
Kaleidoscope,
Groovy Waters,
Jeff Lynne,
Pulsallama,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Harmonia,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
U.S. Maple,
The Sound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Royal Trux,
The Shadows of Knight,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arcadia,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Au Pairs,
Steve Hackett,
Ossler,
Flamin' Groovies,
Toni Rubio,
Matthew Halsall,
Maurizio,
Main Source,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Clear Light,
Ohio Players,
Blossom Toes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joensuu 1685,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Danielle Patucci,
Pylon,
FM Einheit,
Eric B and Rakim,
Little Man,
Model 500,
Bluetip,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.