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 Indonesia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Monolake 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
kango's stein massive,
The Smiths,
Sparks,
Grey Daturas,
Todd Rundgren,
Jandek,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lou Christie,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ice-T,
Howard Jones,
The United States of America,
Grauzone,
Erasure,
The Sonics,
Blancmange,
The Kinks,
The Red Krayola,
Youth Brigade,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Velvet Underground,
Supertramp,
Arcadia,
Ituana,
Brick,
Soft Machine,
Crispy Ambulance,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rotary Connection,
Scion,
Livin' Joy,
The Fortunes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cheater Slicks,
Television,
Negative Approach,
The Grass Roots,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Isaac Hayes,
The Human League,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Modern Lovers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cal Tjader,
AZ,
Fluxion,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drexciya,
Tomorrow,
Pet Shop Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Hot Snakes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Silicon Teens,
Unwound,
Y Pants,
Kurtis Blow,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.