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 Dominica and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Music Machine to the electroclash 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minutemen,
Bob Dylan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hasil Adkins,
The Mojo Men,
Procol Harum,
Yusef Lateef,
Skriet,
Soft Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
One Last Wish,
Iggy Pop,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Beau Brummels,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Gun Club,
Joyce Sims,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gichy Dan,
Tomorrow,
Funkadelic,
Todd Rundgren,
Curtis Mayfield,
Essential Logic,
Rakim,
Ten City,
Jandek,
Yaz,
LL Cool J,
Brand Nubian,
Man Eating Sloth,
Erykah Badu,
Junior Murvin,
Oneida,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nils Olav,
Swell Maps,
Soul II Soul,
The Evens,
Pantytec,
Minor Threat,
John Coltrane,
Brothers Johnson,
Ken Boothe,
Easy Going,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marc Almond,
Tears for Fears,
Colin Newman,
Marvin Gaye,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Connie Case,
the Sonics,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Franke,
Pussy Galore,
The Doobie Brothers,
Minnie Riperton,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.