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 Serbia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Lou Reed 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 Parry Music to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Maleditus Sound,
DJ Sneak,
Motorama,
Sun City Girls,
The Motions,
Anakelly,
Youth Brigade,
Glenn Branca,
Kayak,
Dennis Brown,
the Germs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Slackers,
Crooked Eye,
Cal Tjader,
Susan Cadogan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
X-101,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cramps,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
June of 44,
The Associates,
David Axelrod,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sight & Sound,
Mission of Burma,
LL Cool J,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Buckinghams,
Sonic Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Monks,
Lucky Dragons,
These Immortal Souls,
Mandrill,
Fear,
Oneida,
Jeff Mills,
Accadde A,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Curtis Mayfield,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Infiniti,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fugs,
The Moody Blues,
The Pretty Things,
The Dirtbombs,
Pole,
the Sonics,
Rekid,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kerrie Biddell,
Procol Harum,
Ice-T,
Zapp,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.