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 Belize and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb 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 Gang Gang Dance to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wolf Eyes,
Masters at Work,
Panda Bear,
a-ha,
cv313,
Glenn Branca,
Gerry Rafferty,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joensuu 1685,
Excepter,
The Sonics,
The Raincoats,
F. McDonald,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joey Negro,
Subhumans,
Das Ding,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Seeds,
Todd Rundgren,
the Association,
Sandy B,
Idris Muhammad,
John Lydon,
The Move,
Shoche,
Hot Snakes,
Tommy Roe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bauhaus,
Harmonia,
Alphaville,
Prince Buster,
New Age Steppers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Reuben Wilson,
Neu!,
Tres Demented,
The Neon Judgement,
Organ,
48th St. Collective,
Moebius,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Fraelich,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Steve Hackett,
Derrick Morgan,
Toni Rubio,
Lyres,
FM Einheit,
The Trojans,
Lower 48,
June of 44,
Little Man,
Magazine,
The J.B.'s,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.