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 Brazil and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the rock 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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Electric Prunes,
Todd Terry,
Deepchord,
Ronnie Foster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Siglo XX,
Bronski Beat,
Stetsasonic,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sun Ra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Saccharine Trust,
Bizarre Inc.,
Moebius,
Jacob Miller,
Monolake,
the Normal,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
DNA,
John Foxx,
The Techniques,
June of 44,
Clear Light,
The Neon Judgement,
Gastr Del Sol,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rotary Connection,
Marmalade,
Bluetip,
Aloha Tigers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Whodini,
Alison Limerick,
Minnie Riperton,
Lightning Bolt,
cv313,
Boz Scaggs,
Monks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Big Daddy Kane,
L. Decosne,
Q65,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultimate Spinach,
Henry Cow,
Zero Boys,
Jeru the Damaja,
Harmonia,
Grandmaster Flash,
Todd Rundgren,
Bootsy Collins,
the Soft Cell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Essential Logic,
Derrick Morgan,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.