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 Sri Lanka and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manchester.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Spoonie Gee to the disco 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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Simply Red,
Roger Hodgson,
Rotary Connection,
Peter & Gordon,
Darondo,
cv313,
Pylon,
Lou Christie,
Marine Girls,
The Fire Engines,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tubeway Army,
Half Japanese,
Erykah Badu,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
the Fania All-Stars,
Junior Murvin,
Mars,
Funkadelic,
KRS-One,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jandek,
Qualms,
Eve St. Jones,
Sixth Finger,
DJ Sneak,
Smog,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nico,
ABBA,
Quando Quango,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Loose Ends,
F. McDonald,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Skarface,
Tomorrow,
Lee Hazlewood,
Derrick Morgan,
The Buckinghams,
Laurel Aitken,
Panda Bear,
Y Pants,
The Walker Brothers,
Carl Craig,
Grey Daturas,
Audionom,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Blancmange,
The Mojo Men,
Schoolly D,
Whodini,
The Skatalites,
Slick Rick,
L. Decosne,
The Cramps,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.