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 Namibia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Eurythmics,
T.S.O.L.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Names,
The Techniques,
The Victims,
Althea and Donna,
Peter & Gordon,
Newcleus,
Andrew Hill,
Q65,
Ultravox,
Arab on Radar,
L. Decosne,
Interpol,
Thee Headcoats,
Lindisfarne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Harmonia,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Toni Rubio,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mars,
Black Moon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Evens,
Eddi Front,
Parry Music,
The Walker Brothers,
Amazonics,
Fugazi,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lungfish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Qualms,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Trojans,
The Busters,
B.T. Express,
Tropical Tobacco,
Supertramp,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joensuu 1685,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Cowsills,
Rakim,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Doors,
Stetsasonic,
The Invisible,
Sugar Minott,
Tommy Roe,
The Blackbyrds,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fire Engines,
Clear Light,
Von Mondo,
The Angels of Light,
Rotary Connection,
Tomorrow,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.