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 Barbados and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 linndrum 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 Reagan Youth to the jazz 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes 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 sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Television Personalities,
Iggy Pop,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Depeche Mode,
The Star Department,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fuzztones,
Lee Hazlewood,
Deepchord,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Accadde A,
Skriet,
Boogie Down Productions,
Chris & Cosey,
Fugazi,
Dennis Brown,
Supertramp,
Ken Boothe,
Y Pants,
Pantytec,
Swans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Laurel Aitken,
Second Layer,
Swell Maps,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dave Gahan,
L. Decosne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Unwound,
Grauzone,
Nik Kershaw,
ABBA,
the Normal,
Quando Quango,
Derrick Morgan,
B.T. Express,
Thompson Twins,
Pierre Henry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Michelle Simonal,
Siglo XX,
Livin' Joy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Porter Ricks,
The Pretty Things,
Masters at Work,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Zapp,
The Neon Judgement,
Cheater Slicks,
Hashim,
Max Romeo,
Scan 7,
Rotary Connection,
Josef K,
Godley & Creme,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.