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 Armenia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Peter & Gordon to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Durutti Column record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Country Teasers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
David McCallum,
Zapp,
Byron Stingily,
Michelle Simonal,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pet Shop Boys,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Smiths,
The Pop Group,
Livin' Joy,
Icehouse,
Al Stewart,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
JFA,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Parrish,
Bill Near,
Second Layer,
Tommy Roe,
Mars,
Pharoah Sanders,
48th St. Collective,
Banda Bassotti,
The Dead C,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
10cc,
Tomorrow,
The Flesh Eaters,
Derrick Morgan,
Desert Stars,
Brothers Johnson,
The Velvet Underground,
Unwound,
Zero Boys,
Crash Course in Science,
Groovy Waters,
T.S.O.L.,
The Five Americans,
Junior Murvin,
Joey Negro,
Rekid,
Arthur Verocai,
Marshall Jefferson,
KRS-One,
Khruangbin,
Graham Central Station,
Steve Hackett,
Sonic Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Moleskins,
Juan Atkins,
Althea and Donna,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.