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 Comoros and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lucky Dragons to the rap 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Toasters,
Aaron Thompson,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Buckinghams,
The Gap Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Section 25,
Funkadelic,
Goldenarms,
Quando Quango,
Cluster,
Eric Copeland,
Colin Newman,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Funky Four + One,
Excepter,
Wire,
Kayak,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grey Daturas,
The Leaves,
ABC,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Birthday Party,
Infiniti,
Cal Tjader,
AZ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mars,
Ornette Coleman,
Schoolly D,
June of 44,
David Bowie,
Pierre Henry,
Surgeon,
Soulsonic Force,
Alice Coltrane,
Siglo XX,
Donny Hathaway,
Minny Pops,
Rufus Thomas,
The Happenings,
Au Pairs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Raincoats,
The Star Department,
Kenny Larkin,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fugs,
Gang of Four,
Sparks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Enemy,
Crispy Ambulance,
New York Dolls,
Porter Ricks,
Quadrant,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.