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 Afghanistan and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Kevin Saunderson to the crunk 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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terry Callier record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
The Divine Comedy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
E-Dancer,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cecil Taylor,
Parry Music,
Grauzone,
World's Most,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joy Division,
Scott Walker,
The Moleskins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kas Product,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Theoretical Girls,
The Red Krayola,
Roy Ayers,
LL Cool J,
Youth Brigade,
Fluxion,
Wire,
Jeff Mills,
Lalo Schifrin,
Matthew Bourne,
Ituana,
The Grass Roots,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scion,
Deadbeat,
Mantronix,
Ornette Coleman,
Infiniti,
The Human League,
Heaven 17,
R.M.O.,
Leonard Cohen,
Little Man,
Hardrive,
Gong,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Q65,
Nils Olav,
Albert Ayler,
John Holt,
Patti Smith,
The Monks,
Graham Central Station,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joe Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Star Department,
The Cramps,
Echospace,
Blancmange,
Depeche Mode,
the Slits,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.