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 Turkmenistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 arpeggiator 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 the Association 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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
The Moleskins,
Jacques Brel,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Toasters,
Alton Ellis,
The Evens,
The Fire Engines,
Anthony Braxton,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jeff Mills,
Pantaleimon,
Matthew Bourne,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Al Stewart,
Skriet,
Cybotron,
Reuben Wilson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Wake,
Section 25,
MC5,
Scan 7,
The Blackbyrds,
Ornette Coleman,
June of 44,
Carl Craig,
The Star Department,
Wolf Eyes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Agitation Free,
Magazine,
Faraquet,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nas,
Duran Duran,
The Fuzztones,
Slave,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mark Hollis,
Rites of Spring,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter and Kerry,
The Birthday Party,
Banda Bassotti,
Jerry's Kids,
Gang of Four,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Byrd,
Surgeon,
Thee Headcoats,
Tommy Roe,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Crooked Eye,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.