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 Iran and from Lille.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Fluxion to the rap 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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Zero Boys,
Quadrant,
Popol Vuh,
Scion,
Kas Product,
Archie Shepp,
Second Layer,
Niagra,
Livin' Joy,
Maleditus Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DJ Style,
Saccharine Trust,
Bill Wells,
The Slackers,
Big Daddy Kane,
June Days,
Robert Hood,
Guru Guru,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick May,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nas,
Malaria!,
Country Teasers,
John Cale,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Monolake,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Modern Lovers,
ABC,
Deakin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Alison Limerick,
Terrestrial Tones,
Inner City,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
Althea and Donna,
The Star Department,
Byron Stingily,
Fugazi,
Franke,
Rotary Connection,
Robert Görl,
Quando Quango,
The Velvet Underground,
Leonard Cohen,
The Doors,
The Mummies,
Eden Ahbez,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bronski Beat,
Television Personalities,
Morten Harket,
Panda Bear,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.