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 Nepal and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Roger Hodgson to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed,
Easy Going,
Rakim,
Flipper,
Tim Buckley,
K-Klass,
Lucky Dragons,
cv313,
Unrelated Segments,
Bizarre Inc.,
Quando Quango,
Massinfluence,
Cameo,
Mary Jane Girls,
David Bowie,
Quadrant,
Swans,
Wally Richardson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Moleskins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ponytail,
L. Decosne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Raincoats,
Graham Central Station,
Drexciya,
Eurythmics,
The Sound,
The Young Rascals,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fat Boys,
Eli Mardock,
Jacques Brel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Dolphy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Five Americans,
Interpol,
John Lydon,
Steve Hackett,
Whodini,
Scrapy,
Animal Collective,
48th St. Collective,
Bill Wells,
The Knickerbockers,
Sam Rivers,
Scan 7,
Patti Smith,
Davy DMX,
Vainqueur,
Avey Tare,
Lightning Bolt,
The Motions,
Excepter,
Parry Music,
Electric Prunes,
EPMD,
The Cramps,
Sugar Minott,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.