Infinitely Losing My Edge

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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 Bhutan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.

I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Portland and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Lou Reed 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 Barrington Levy to the techno 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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.

All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.

But have you seen my records?

Minny Pops, Alice Coltrane, Prince Buster, Lebanon Hanover, Max Romeo, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Derrick Morgan, Sex Pistols, Newcleus, Kenny Larkin, Rosa Yemen, Byron Stingily, These Immortal Souls, Shuggie Otis, Yusef Lateef, Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Bill Wells, The Blues Magoos, Iggy Pop, Q and Not U, Porter Ricks, Kurtis Blow, The Skatalites, The Invisible, Chris Corsano, The Residents, Duran Duran, Sun Ra Arkestra, Donny Hathaway, ABBA, Roxy Music, Sam Rivers, Rekid, Eric Dolphy, Sonic Youth, Nas, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Boogie Down Productions, The Walker Brothers, Altered Images, The Buckinghams, Country Teasers, Los Fastidios, Infiniti, OOIOO, Althea and Donna, Robert Wyatt, Darondo, Barbara Tucker, Television, Kevin Saunderson, Lucky Dragons, Zapp, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Saccharine Trust, U.S. Maple, Derrick May, Scott Walker, Jandek, Procol Harum, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Arcadia, Eyeless In Gaza, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.

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.

A hack by Matthew Ogle who is very sorry to James Murphy and basically everyone (cheers to Darius and this for the late-night inspiration)