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 Djibouti and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 808 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 The Gories to the rap 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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Grey Daturas,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eric Copeland,
Soul II Soul,
X-102,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lou Reed,
Peter & Gordon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Frankie Knuckles,
10cc,
Barry Ungar,
Colin Newman,
Oneida,
Tubeway Army,
Smog,
Flamin' Groovies,
Mandrill,
Drexciya,
Index,
Boredoms,
Sight & Sound,
Lower 48,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Arab on Radar,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roxy Music,
Electric Prunes,
Nik Kershaw,
UT,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Stereo Dub,
Ronan,
Eurythmics,
Popol Vuh,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fela Kuti,
Yazoo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joy Division,
Pantaleimon,
Isaac Hayes,
Intrusion,
Dual Sessions,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Donald Byrd,
Spandau Ballet,
The Durutti Column,
The Invisible,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
B.T. Express,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rekid,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.