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 Namibia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 guitar 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 The Fall to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Andrew Hill,
Johnny Clarke,
Cymande,
Patti Smith,
Minny Pops,
Cheater Slicks,
The Trojans,
The Red Krayola,
The Associates,
The Wake,
Soul Sonic Force,
Y Pants,
Susan Cadogan,
The Residents,
This Heat,
Supertramp,
Make Up,
Faraquet,
John Holt,
The Doobie Brothers,
Icehouse,
Los Fastidios,
Derrick Morgan,
Saccharine Trust,
Nils Olav,
The Searchers,
Minutemen,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Babytalk,
The Martian,
Brothers Johnson,
Lungfish,
Suicide,
Crash Course in Science,
Lalann,
Hoover,
Fad Gadget,
Moby Grape,
R.M.O.,
Surgeon,
Brand Nubian,
Quadrant,
Kas Product,
Bluetip,
Juan Atkins,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
La Düsseldorf,
Minor Threat,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ice-T,
Graham Central Station,
the Swans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Wire,
Rosa Yemen,
Khruangbin,
Nik Kershaw,
Bob Dylan,
a-ha,
Sunsets and Hearts,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.