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 East Timor and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Robert Hood to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Josef K,
The Wake,
Bluetip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Accadde A,
Slave,
Lou Reed,
Tom Boy,
Bauhaus,
David McCallum,
The Star Department,
Danielle Patucci,
Sonny Sharrock,
cv313,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Stooges,
JFA,
Depeche Mode,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Blackbyrds,
Amon Düül II,
Isaac Hayes,
Bill Wells,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Motorama,
Erykah Badu,
Flipper,
Vladislav Delay,
Ultravox,
Eric Copeland,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Barry Ungar,
Black Pus,
B.T. Express,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Television,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bob Dylan,
Fatback Band,
The Gap Band,
Circle Jerks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thompson Twins,
Ronan,
David Bowie,
Essential Logic,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soul II Soul,
Pylon,
Rakim,
Gregory Isaacs,
Heaven 17,
Amon Düül,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jimmy McGriff,
DJ Style,
Marmalade,
Prince Buster,
R.M.O.,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kas Product,
James White and The Blacks,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.