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 Australia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb 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 Panda Bear to the rap 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
The Evens,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fatback Band,
Mad Mike,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Little Man,
Pet Shop Boys,
One Last Wish,
Rod Modell,
Slick Rick,
The Monks,
The Smiths,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Donald Byrd,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eve St. Jones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Minny Pops,
The J.B.'s,
Suburban Knight,
The Busters,
Blancmange,
Black Sheep,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Excepter,
Reagan Youth,
the Swans,
Peter & Gordon,
Boredoms,
The Happenings,
Grey Daturas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gories,
Hardrive,
Scott Walker,
X-102,
The Martian,
Alphaville,
The Misunderstood,
Section 25,
Trumans Water,
48th St. Collective,
Gerry Rafferty,
X-Ray Spex,
John Foxx,
Swell Maps,
Japan,
Circle Jerks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minnie Riperton,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rapeman,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Delta 5,
Sister Nancy,
Panda Bear,
The Fuzztones,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Donny Hathaway,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.