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 Gabon and from Cairo.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin 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 Japan to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Flash Fearless,
Tubeway Army,
Leonard Cohen,
The Beau Brummels,
Rapeman,
Funkadelic,
Minutemen,
Juan Atkins,
10cc,
Eric Dolphy,
Prince Buster,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
the Swans,
B.T. Express,
CMW,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Fortunes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cluster,
The Walker Brothers,
Brass Construction,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Litter,
The Black Dice,
Faraquet,
PIL,
Rufus Thomas,
Moby Grape,
EPMD,
The Blackbyrds,
The Kinks,
Underground Resistance,
Roy Ayers,
The Neon Judgement,
E-Dancer,
Von Mondo,
Joensuu 1685,
Wolf Eyes,
The Slits,
Kevin Saunderson,
Echospace,
Kool Moe Dee,
Depeche Mode,
Radio Birdman,
Boogie Down Productions,
Maurizio,
The Real Kids,
Eric B and Rakim,
Goldenarms,
The Monks,
Fad Gadget,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minor Threat,
Scott Walker,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Blossom Toes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gichy Dan,
The Star Department,
Alison Limerick,
Lalo Schifrin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.