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 Kingdom and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Shanghai.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lyres to the grime 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dennis Brown,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eli Mardock,
Urselle,
Jawbox,
The Slackers,
The Stooges,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fugazi,
Tom Boy,
The Real Kids,
Colin Newman,
FM Einheit,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Raincoats,
The Count Five,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Human League,
Jerry's Kids,
The Buckinghams,
Soft Cell,
The Vogues,
The J.B.'s,
Kenny Larkin,
Fela Kuti,
Chris Corsano,
Todd Terry,
Eddi Front,
Pulsallama,
Soulsonic Force,
China Crisis,
Subhumans,
Make Up,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Young Rascals,
Maurizio,
Moebius,
Mission of Burma,
Mandrill,
Faust,
48th St. Collective,
The Trojans,
Minnie Riperton,
The Pretty Things,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ohio Players,
The Busters,
The Moleskins,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Birthday Party,
The Flesh Eaters,
Adolescents,
Monolake,
Soul Sonic Force,
Trumans Water,
Erykah Badu,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bauhaus,
Qualms,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.