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 United States and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer 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 Mighty Diamonds to the rock 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric Copeland,
Section 25,
ABC,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Fugs,
Agent Orange,
Archie Shepp,
Sugar Minott,
Blake Baxter,
Pylon,
The Blackbyrds,
Whodini,
Lindisfarne,
Scott Walker,
John Coltrane,
Alison Limerick,
Average White Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Yaz,
Barrington Levy,
Scratch Acid,
Erykah Badu,
Junior Murvin,
John Cale,
Fela Kuti,
Ponytail,
Arthur Verocai,
Blancmange,
Tom Boy,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Smiths,
Neu!,
Duran Duran,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Japan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gang Starr,
Hoover,
The United States of America,
Sixth Finger,
The Move,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gabor Szabo,
Delta 5,
Prince Buster,
UT,
Massinfluence,
Scientists,
Kaleidoscope,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Godley & Creme,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Brand Nubian,
Fear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arcadia,
The Sound,
Drexciya,
The Vogues,
Mars,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.