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 Canada and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gastr Del Sol to the dance 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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Association,
Underground Resistance,
Rekid,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Man Parrish,
Nils Olav,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joyce Sims,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Zero Boys,
Magma,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scan 7,
Simply Red,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
T.S.O.L.,
Laurel Aitken,
Freddie Wadling,
Absolute Body Control,
The Durutti Column,
Ultimate Spinach,
Darondo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sun City Girls,
Talk Talk,
Camouflage,
Radiohead,
The Five Americans,
Ponytail,
Sam Rivers,
JFA,
The Dead C,
F. McDonald,
Letta Mbulu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Cale,
Spoonie Gee,
The Star Department,
The Zeros,
Cymande,
Gang Starr,
Warsaw,
Roy Ayers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soft Machine,
Nation of Ulysses,
Whodini,
Gang of Four,
The Walker Brothers,
The New Christs,
Malaria!,
Stetsasonic,
Altered Images,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.