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 East Timor and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 harpsichord 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Lou Christie,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dennis Brown,
The Gap Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Josef K,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dark Day,
The Offenders,
Lee Hazlewood,
Echospace,
Henry Cow,
The Blackbyrds,
Sonic Youth,
Rapeman,
Isaac Hayes,
Model 500,
Basic Channel,
Harmonia,
Schoolly D,
Darondo,
This Heat,
Joy Division,
Jeff Mills,
The Victims,
Toni Rubio,
Pole,
Sexual Harrassment,
Black Moon,
Max Romeo,
Marine Girls,
Zero Boys,
Tommy Roe,
Scientists,
Minnie Riperton,
Stereo Dub,
The Residents,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Liliput,
Technova,
Amon Düül II,
Flipper,
Funky Four + One,
Electric Prunes,
Saccharine Trust,
Television Personalities,
Ponytail,
Silicon Teens,
Talk Talk,
The Stooges,
The American Breed,
Make Up,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quando Quango,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
June Days,
Barrington Levy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Blake Baxter,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.