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 Denmark and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the crunk 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
The Young Rascals,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Techniques,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Quando Quango,
The Pretty Things,
Smog,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Reed,
Bronski Beat,
Alton Ellis,
Tres Demented,
Shuggie Otis,
Man Eating Sloth,
Frankie Knuckles,
48th St. Collective,
E-Dancer,
Suburban Knight,
Deadbeat,
the Swans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Electric Prunes,
Gerry Rafferty,
Barry Ungar,
David Bowie,
The Smiths,
Leonard Cohen,
Los Fastidios,
Flipper,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scientists,
T. Rex,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Steve Hackett,
Niagra,
Eli Mardock,
The Pop Group,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Avey Tare,
Patti Smith,
Magma,
Hashim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Raincoats,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Star Department,
Throbbing Gristle,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Radiohead,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Gories,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sixth Finger,
Fela Kuti,
LL Cool J,
DJ Sneak,
Neil Young,
Section 25,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.