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 Mongolia and from Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Liliput to the funk 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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aural Exciters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sonic Youth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Japan,
Brothers Johnson,
The Cowsills,
The Mummies,
The Move,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radio Birdman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Wake,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lou Reed,
Bobby Womack,
Ronan,
The Motions,
Skriet,
The New Christs,
Andrew Hill,
Scott Walker,
Pussy Galore,
The Victims,
In Retrospect,
Alton Ellis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Delta 5,
Livin' Joy,
Fad Gadget,
Main Source,
Deepchord,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultimate Spinach,
Blancmange,
The Velvet Underground,
Q65,
FM Einheit,
X-102,
The Mojo Men,
These Immortal Souls,
Deakin,
David McCallum,
Amon Düül II,
Thompson Twins,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fortunes,
Drexciya,
Ultra Naté,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dual Sessions,
Siglo XX,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Technova,
Alison Limerick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Michelle Simonal,
Oneida,
Yellowson,
DJ Sneak,
Dorothy Ashby,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.