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 Kazakhstan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 mellotron 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Shoche,
In Retrospect,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Motions,
Sight & Sound,
Marc Almond,
Harmonia,
Mantronix,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cluster,
D'Angelo,
Lower 48,
Massinfluence,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Sneak,
Bizarre Inc.,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultravox,
Simply Red,
Swell Maps,
Dennis Brown,
Todd Terry,
Neu!,
Negative Approach,
Stereo Dub,
Tomorrow,
Nas,
Sister Nancy,
The Skatalites,
Accadde A,
Chris & Cosey,
Lightning Bolt,
Drexciya,
Ice-T,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Slits,
R.M.O.,
Lungfish,
Cameo,
Joey Negro,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Organ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Icehouse,
Roxette,
Bad Manners,
Pantaleimon,
Clear Light,
Donny Hathaway,
UT,
The Fortunes,
Nils Olav,
The Searchers,
Joyce Sims,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.