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 Korea North and from Taipei.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Peter & Gordon,
Reuben Wilson,
Underground Resistance,
Bizarre Inc.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joyce Sims,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pantaleimon,
Don Cherry,
Liliput,
Chris & Cosey,
DJ Sneak,
Donald Byrd,
Rufus Thomas,
Main Source,
Slick Rick,
Gabor Szabo,
Davy DMX,
Angry Samoans,
Average White Band,
Lalann,
A Certain Ratio,
Cal Tjader,
Mad Mike,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Patti Smith,
Spandau Ballet,
Depeche Mode,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lucky Dragons,
Barbara Tucker,
The Raincoats,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Evens,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cameo,
Roxette,
Motorama,
Blancmange,
Agitation Free,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ken Boothe,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Red Krayola,
Bang On A Can,
The Mojo Men,
K-Klass,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Mummies,
Au Pairs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Skriet,
Darondo,
Q65,
Eric B and Rakim,
Freddie Wadling,
Roger Hodgson,
Eden Ahbez,
EPMD,
Junior Murvin,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.