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 Slovakia and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Excepter to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
UT,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terry Callier,
Isaac Hayes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The American Breed,
Roy Ayers,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Modern Lovers,
Camouflage,
Make Up,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Beau Brummels,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bad Manners,
Y Pants,
John Cale,
Faust,
Minor Threat,
Warren Ellis,
Sound Behaviour,
Sexual Harrassment,
the Bar-Kays,
Gabor Szabo,
The Music Machine,
the Human League,
Agitation Free,
Popol Vuh,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jawbox,
The Doors,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Reuben Wilson,
Roxy Music,
Mo-Dettes,
Toni Rubio,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Spoonie Gee,
The Fall,
Roger Hodgson,
The Mummies,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantaleimon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lee Hazlewood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sixth Finger,
Fatback Band,
The Leaves,
Soul II Soul,
Mantronix,
Silicon Teens,
Sarah Menescal,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Neon Judgement,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grauzone,
The Black Dice,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.