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 Albania and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba 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 Electric Prunes to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Dual Sessions,
Can,
Quando Quango,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Evens,
The Detroit Cobras,
Zero Boys,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Aaron Thompson,
Skriet,
Grauzone,
Kevin Saunderson,
A Certain Ratio,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Golliwogs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Thompson Twins,
Tom Boy,
KRS-One,
the Bar-Kays,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
This Heat,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Malaria!,
Section 25,
Cymande,
Archie Shepp,
Barbara Tucker,
Alison Limerick,
Carl Craig,
Reagan Youth,
Ossler,
Groovy Waters,
Marine Girls,
New York Dolls,
Porter Ricks,
Stiv Bators,
Soul II Soul,
The Cramps,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Delta 5,
The Stooges,
Bobby Womack,
Max Romeo,
The Gap Band,
The New Christs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crooked Eye,
Slick Rick,
The Remains,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers,
Don Cherry,
The Sonics,
Visage,
Intrusion,
Gang Green,
The Smoke,
Joyce Sims,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.