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 East Timor and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno 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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 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?
Pet Shop Boys,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Icehouse,
Gregory Isaacs,
Carl Craig,
Scrapy,
Unrelated Segments,
Mo-Dettes,
The Pop Group,
Basic Channel,
Whodini,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rosa Yemen,
Essential Logic,
Minny Pops,
Cheater Slicks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Patti Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Chris & Cosey,
DJ Sneak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Roxy Music,
Freddie Wadling,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Tremeloes,
Parry Music,
The Music Machine,
Roxette,
The Monks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Peter and Kerry,
These Immortal Souls,
Underground Resistance,
UT,
Black Bananas,
Rotary Connection,
Kas Product,
Danielle Patucci,
The Victims,
the Germs,
Grauzone,
MC5,
Harpers Bizarre,
Arcadia,
Aloha Tigers,
Saccharine Trust,
Avey Tare,
Don Cherry,
Ludus,
Excepter,
Albert Ayler,
Electric Prunes,
Maleditus Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Siglo XX,
Con Funk Shun,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sun City Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.