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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gang Starr to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aural Exciters,
Brick,
John Foxx,
The Offenders,
Laurel Aitken,
Half Japanese,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Khruangbin,
Hoover,
New Order,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sandy B,
Fela Kuti,
the Human League,
The Invisible,
The Velvet Underground,
Lungfish,
Quando Quango,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Young Marble Giants,
Ronnie Foster,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fluxion,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Beau Brummels,
DJ Style,
The Grass Roots,
Intrusion,
Jeff Mills,
Ornette Coleman,
Alison Limerick,
JFA,
The Detroit Cobras,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cymande,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Real Kids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anakelly,
Ice-T,
Fear,
Outsiders,
Swans,
T. Rex,
Derrick May,
The Moody Blues,
Moebius,
Piero Umiliani,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eli Mardock,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Cale,
The Fortunes,
The Motions,
The Count Five,
The Remains,
Groovy Waters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.