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 Brunei and from Salvador.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
The Remains,
Jandek,
Nick Fraelich,
Donald Byrd,
Grauzone,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ice-T,
Chris Corsano,
Goldenarms,
Kevin Saunderson,
June of 44,
Theoretical Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Stetsasonic,
Tim Buckley,
Lower 48,
Harmonia,
Alton Ellis,
Gang Green,
Monolake,
Negative Approach,
Royal Trux,
Adolescents,
Alice Coltrane,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soulsonic Force,
Gichy Dan,
Vladislav Delay,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gabor Szabo,
Oneida,
Underground Resistance,
the Normal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Evens,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moby Grape,
Joy Division,
Soft Machine,
FM Einheit,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mr. Review,
The Gun Club,
Warsaw,
Livin' Joy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Maurizio,
Newcleus,
Bobby Womack,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
E-Dancer,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bronski Beat,
Yaz,
Tres Demented,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Doors,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.