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 Moldova and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum 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 Das Ding to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Isaac Hayes,
John Foxx,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Litter,
The Red Krayola,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kayak,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Deepchord,
Easy Going,
Average White Band,
Royal Trux,
Negative Approach,
Pagans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Parry Music,
Chrome,
Fear,
Swell Maps,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tim Buckley,
Panda Bear,
The Pretty Things,
Fugazi,
The Fugs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Buzzcocks,
Leonard Cohen,
Massinfluence,
Barry Ungar,
D'Angelo,
The Neon Judgement,
X-101,
Heaven 17,
Neu!,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pere Ubu,
Pierre Henry,
Echospace,
Lou Christie,
Rakim,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Harpers Bizarre,
Byron Stingily,
Chris & Cosey,
Khruangbin,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Grass Roots,
FM Einheit,
Slave,
Roxette,
Soulsonic Force,
New Order,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Shoche,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.