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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the guitar 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 Interpol to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
One Last Wish,
Reuben Wilson,
The Buckinghams,
Lou Christie,
Rosa Yemen,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jesper Dahlback,
10cc,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Idris Muhammad,
Stockholm Monsters,
Chrome,
Jacob Miller,
Ken Boothe,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eddi Front,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Franke,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Human League,
Bob Dylan,
Slick Rick,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Anthony Braxton,
Scientists,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
David Axelrod,
Dennis Brown,
The Martian,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fugazi,
Deadbeat,
The Red Krayola,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Desert Stars,
Eden Ahbez,
The Dead C,
Chris & Cosey,
Isaac Hayes,
The J.B.'s,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
OOIOO,
The Gun Club,
The Modern Lovers,
Bluetip,
Siglo XX,
Colin Newman,
Inner City,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultravox,
Barrington Levy,
Alton Ellis,
The New Christs,
The Blackbyrds,
Yaz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Soft Machine,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.