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 Vanuatu and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 808 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 Delon & Dalcan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Eric Copeland,
Blancmange,
Derrick May,
Alison Limerick,
R.M.O.,
Minutemen,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
One Last Wish,
Matthew Halsall,
Young Marble Giants,
Scott Walker,
Delta 5,
The Names,
Parry Music,
X-Ray Spex,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Divine Comedy,
Byron Stingily,
Cal Tjader,
Nik Kershaw,
F. McDonald,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Count Five,
Flipper,
The Wake,
The Black Dice,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jandek,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Velvet Underground,
John Coltrane,
Aswad,
Rotary Connection,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Agent Orange,
Dawn Penn,
Vladislav Delay,
Brass Construction,
Angry Samoans,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joe Finger,
Maurizio,
Isaac Hayes,
T.S.O.L.,
Howard Jones,
Pylon,
The Searchers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rhythm & Sound,
Black Pus,
Goldenarms,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Archie Shepp,
Accadde A,
Black Sheep,
Main Source,
Wally Richardson,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.