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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Infiniti to the crunk 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Siglo XX,
Radio Birdman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Radiohead,
Sandy B,
Basic Channel,
The Fuzztones,
The Invisible,
Joensuu 1685,
Mark Hollis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sixth Finger,
Boz Scaggs,
The Doors,
Sugar Minott,
Yazoo,
Gang Starr,
Livin' Joy,
Erasure,
Ituana,
ABC,
Das Ding,
The Velvet Underground,
Spoonie Gee,
Warren Ellis,
Icehouse,
Quando Quango,
Gang of Four,
The Monochrome Set,
EPMD,
Jeff Lynne,
Royal Trux,
Erykah Badu,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Moon,
Au Pairs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Al Stewart,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Glenn Branca,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeff Mills,
Shoche,
Sam Rivers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pulsallama,
Lou Reed,
Susan Cadogan,
The Martian,
Procol Harum,
Technova,
Magazine,
The Wake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Second Layer,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.