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 New Zealand and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 David McCallum to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Dead C. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Cal Tjader,
Shuggie Otis,
John Coltrane,
D'Angelo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Don Cherry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mad Mike,
One Last Wish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Electric Prunes,
Smog,
Man Parrish,
Bob Dylan,
the Swans,
Whodini,
Nas,
Panda Bear,
Sarah Menescal,
Sonic Youth,
Robert Hood,
The Slackers,
The Divine Comedy,
UT,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Boredoms,
The Residents,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Faraquet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lee Hazlewood,
Guru Guru,
Jerry's Kids,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Young Marble Giants,
Ludus,
Magma,
Tom Boy,
Rites of Spring,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pierre Henry,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Tears for Fears,
U.S. Maple,
Bad Manners,
Gastr Del Sol,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fat Boys,
Ultra Naté,
The United States of America,
Josef K,
Lalann,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Model 500,
a-ha,
Max Romeo,
Pylon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.