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 Marshall Islands and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Minny Pops to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Barbara Tucker,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bob Dylan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Connie Case,
The Gories,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Flash Fearless,
Fela Kuti,
Parry Music,
Amazonics,
Aswad,
Surgeon,
Supertramp,
Smog,
The Grass Roots,
Derrick May,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
UT,
Brand Nubian,
Marshall Jefferson,
Judy Mowatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Techniques,
The Offenders,
X-101,
The Velvet Underground,
Black Pus,
DJ Sneak,
ABC,
The Cowsills,
Suicide,
Easy Going,
Yaz,
Nick Fraelich,
Lou Reed,
Electric Prunes,
The Toasters,
Khruangbin,
Ultravox,
Heaven 17,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dawn Penn,
Thee Headcoats,
The Modern Lovers,
the Bar-Kays,
Accadde A,
Kerri Chandler,
Loose Ends,
Faraquet,
Fat Boys,
Make Up,
Moss Icon,
Wire,
The Index,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.