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 Haiti and from Bologna.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 harpsichord 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 Loose Ends to the disco 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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound 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?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ken Boothe,
Brass Construction,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sällskapet,
Surgeon,
The Human League,
A Certain Ratio,
Mo-Dettes,
Massinfluence,
Second Layer,
Dual Sessions,
The Durutti Column,
Max Romeo,
Robert Wyatt,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Mummies,
Silicon Teens,
Kenny Larkin,
Stereo Dub,
Lee Hazlewood,
Idris Muhammad,
Marshall Jefferson,
Unrelated Segments,
Half Japanese,
Schoolly D,
Maurizio,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pulsallama,
Skaos,
Mad Mike,
Neil Young,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jandek,
Royal Trux,
Stiv Bators,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gories,
Erykah Badu,
Fatback Band,
The Dead C,
The Gap Band,
Hardrive,
the Slits,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Boogie Down Productions,
Index,
Suicide,
Public Enemy,
Interpol,
Ossler,
Prince Buster,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Raincoats,
Quando Quango,
EPMD,
Joy Division,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.