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 Cameroon and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
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 harpsichord 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 Unwound to the rock 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Knickerbockers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Parry Music,
Groovy Waters,
Morten Harket,
Little Man,
Josef K,
Babytalk,
Kerrie Biddell,
Unwound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ronan,
The Gladiators,
Rakim,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bob Dylan,
Public Enemy,
Dave Gahan,
Mandrill,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mary Jane Girls,
David Bowie,
Infiniti,
Minny Pops,
The New Christs,
Kurtis Blow,
Sexual Harrassment,
Q and Not U,
Nas,
Darondo,
Skarface,
Panda Bear,
Bang On A Can,
The Saints,
The Motions,
Audionom,
Lungfish,
Section 25,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brothers Johnson,
Pantytec,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Icehouse,
Wings,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
H. Thieme,
the Swans,
Michelle Simonal,
Mars,
Althea and Donna,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Andrew Hill,
Roy Ayers,
Royal Trux,
Shuggie Otis,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
PIL,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.