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 Malawi and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 X-102 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cure,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Happenings,
Au Pairs,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Residents,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Womack,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grauzone,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Davy DMX,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
La Düsseldorf,
Smog,
The Gories,
Bang On A Can,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Mojo Men,
Pulsallama,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Aural Exciters,
Warsaw,
Faust,
Derrick May,
Lalo Schifrin,
Half Japanese,
Soft Cell,
Lebanon Hanover,
JFA,
Godley & Creme,
The Dead C,
Marshall Jefferson,
Soulsonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Juan Atkins,
Derrick Morgan,
Sam Rivers,
Yellowson,
David McCallum,
The Leaves,
Blossom Toes,
Swans,
Blancmange,
Pantytec,
Kayak,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Motions,
Marvin Gaye,
Sparks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Interpol,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Stiv Bators,
Dark Day,
Rites of Spring,
AZ,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.