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 Canada and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Slackers to the crunk 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Main Source,
Kurtis Blow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Sound,
The Birthday Party,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Delta 5,
The Associates,
Fela Kuti,
Spoonie Gee,
Jacob Miller,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ralphi Rosario,
Idris Muhammad,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Zapp,
The Selecter,
Quantec,
Nirvana,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Model 500,
Malaria!,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dawn Penn,
Loose Ends,
Laurel Aitken,
Desert Stars,
Ossler,
Tomorrow,
John Lydon,
Thompson Twins,
Pagans,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lalo Schifrin,
These Immortal Souls,
Minnie Riperton,
Sugar Minott,
Morten Harket,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dave Gahan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Techniques,
Magazine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Qualms,
Godley & Creme,
Barry Ungar,
Todd Rundgren,
Wally Richardson,
E-Dancer,
Magma,
Heaven 17,
Cal Tjader,
Peter & Gordon,
Bad Manners,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Little Man,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.