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 Burkina and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Qualms,
Funky Four + One,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
MDC,
The Move,
Amon Düül,
Janne Schatter,
The Doobie Brothers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
One Last Wish,
Unrelated Segments,
Arcadia,
Patti Smith,
John Holt,
Flash Fearless,
Franke,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Oblivians,
Pere Ubu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers,
The Fortunes,
Bootsy Collins,
DJ Style,
Swell Maps,
Grey Daturas,
Faraquet,
Silicon Teens,
Thee Headcoats,
Motorama,
The Offenders,
Nick Fraelich,
The Busters,
Audionom,
Eve St. Jones,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bush Tetras,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jeff Lynne,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Popol Vuh,
Adolescents,
Leonard Cohen,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Modern Lovers,
LL Cool J,
Cal Tjader,
Ash Ra Tempel,
R.M.O.,
Maleditus Sound,
B.T. Express,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Blake Baxter,
Neu!,
The Blues Magoos,
Stetsasonic,
Don Cherry,
Rakim,
Anakelly,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.