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 Nigeria and from Copenhagen.
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 Houston and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Hardrive to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Deakin,
Banda Bassotti,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
World's Most,
Young Marble Giants,
Rufus Thomas,
Arcadia,
The Happenings,
Gang Gang Dance,
Suicide,
Bobby Byrd,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jerry's Kids,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Black Sheep,
Rosa Yemen,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blues Magoos,
Al Stewart,
The Durutti Column,
Bauhaus,
Marmalade,
Wolf Eyes,
The Evens,
10cc,
Unrelated Segments,
Wings,
Sex Pistols,
Archie Shepp,
Faraquet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hoover,
L. Decosne,
June Days,
Joey Negro,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Au Pairs,
Avey Tare,
The Fuzztones,
The Saints,
Cheater Slicks,
Quando Quango,
Y Pants,
Reagan Youth,
Eurythmics,
Sparks,
Susan Cadogan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Steve Hackett,
Bootsy Collins,
Loose Ends,
Grandmaster Flash,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Supertramp,
This Heat,
Khruangbin,
The Doors,
Bobby Sherman,
Alphaville,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sarah Menescal,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.