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 Kyrgyzstan and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Groovy Waters 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Accadde A,
Toni Rubio,
The Index,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Au Pairs,
Shuggie Otis,
The Red Krayola,
Faraquet,
Q and Not U,
Colin Newman,
Joyce Sims,
Ultimate Spinach,
Country Joe & The Fish,
These Immortal Souls,
Livin' Joy,
Minutemen,
Black Pus,
Oblivians,
Sun Ra,
Jeff Mills,
Siglo XX,
Sonny Sharrock,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bad Manners,
The Last Poets,
Marvin Gaye,
The Durutti Column,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Janne Schatter,
Television Personalities,
Leonard Cohen,
Quando Quango,
Grandmaster Flash,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tomorrow,
The Invisible,
Flipper,
The Real Kids,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soul II Soul,
Nas,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Monks,
Fela Kuti,
Yazoo,
Lakeside,
Sixth Finger,
Soft Machine,
Zapp,
Sound Behaviour,
The Human League,
Albert Ayler,
Arcadia,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joey Negro,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grauzone,
Sarah Menescal,
JFA,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.