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 Indonesia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
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 güiro 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 Sun City Girls to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
The Barracudas,
Soulsonic Force,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Faust,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kaleidoscope,
Graham Central Station,
L. Decosne,
Oneida,
Pere Ubu,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pierre Henry,
Robert Wyatt,
U.S. Maple,
E-Dancer,
John Holt,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mad Mike,
Mantronix,
Derrick May,
Franke,
Jandek,
Brass Construction,
The Residents,
Smog,
Pantaleimon,
Motorama,
Rekid,
Minny Pops,
The Move,
Bush Tetras,
In Retrospect,
Aloha Tigers,
Dawn Penn,
Tubeway Army,
New York Dolls,
Siglo XX,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Invisible,
The Black Dice,
Kenny Larkin,
The Selecter,
Glenn Branca,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Detroit Cobras,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barry Ungar,
Arcadia,
Nick Fraelich,
Judy Mowatt,
Maleditus Sound,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Godley & Creme,
Todd Rundgren,
Nils Olav,
Grey Daturas,
Audionom,
the Germs,
The Moody Blues,
Michelle Simonal,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.