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 Mali and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 mellotron 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 The Music Machine to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jandek,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Zeros,
Blossom Toes,
Leonard Cohen,
Jacob Miller,
Ohio Players,
X-102,
Aural Exciters,
The Cramps,
Porter Ricks,
Heaven 17,
Rod Modell,
Panda Bear,
Moss Icon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Radiohead,
Duran Duran,
Aaron Thompson,
Kenny Larkin,
The Moody Blues,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Searchers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Popol Vuh,
OOIOO,
Underground Resistance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Talk Talk,
Bill Wells,
Lindisfarne,
Absolute Body Control,
Saccharine Trust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tres Demented,
Smog,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Boredoms,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Juan Atkins,
Groovy Waters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Main Source,
Dual Sessions,
Rekid,
Eric Dolphy,
Technova,
LL Cool J,
The Moleskins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Todd Terry,
Maleditus Sound,
The Red Krayola,
ABBA,
Maurizio,
Roy Ayers,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.