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 Greece and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Donald Fagen 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 Half Japanese to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
The Remains,
The Young Rascals,
Nils Olav,
Banda Bassotti,
Skriet,
Niagra,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Leonard Cohen,
Matthew Bourne,
Visage,
Nation of Ulysses,
Johnny Clarke,
Scientists,
Pagans,
Newcleus,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Simply Red,
The Mummies,
R.M.O.,
Gil Scott Heron,
Basic Channel,
Khruangbin,
Electric Prunes,
Surgeon,
Con Funk Shun,
Duran Duran,
John Coltrane,
Circle Jerks,
Todd Terry,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Association,
Blancmange,
Graham Central Station,
The Wake,
Al Stewart,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fugs,
F. McDonald,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Cowsills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eddi Front,
Mandrill,
Sonny Sharrock,
Avey Tare,
Interpol,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ornette Coleman,
Sarah Menescal,
Henry Cow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dark Day,
Smog,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Youth Brigade,
The Index,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sexual Harrassment,
Television,
Average White Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.