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 Chad and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Negative Approach to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Neu!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lakeside,
Marmalade,
Marine Girls,
Aswad,
David Axelrod,
Nils Olav,
The Gladiators,
Pylon,
kango's stein massive,
Smog,
Boz Scaggs,
The Mummies,
Bootsy Collins,
The Monochrome Set,
Albert Ayler,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Buzzcocks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Suicide,
The Black Dice,
Altered Images,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Skaos,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ohio Players,
The Cowsills,
Johnny Osbourne,
Anthony Braxton,
Amon Düül,
Scott Walker,
Scratch Acid,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lungfish,
The Vogues,
Infiniti,
The Moody Blues,
Avey Tare,
The Fortunes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crime,
Scion,
Minnie Riperton,
Bang On A Can,
EPMD,
Deakin,
Jerry's Kids,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nas,
This Heat,
Sparks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Human League,
Tommy Roe,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Invisible,
Soft Cell,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Radiopuhelimet,
John Holt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.