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 Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 Kaleidoscope to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Toni Rubio,
Sound Behaviour,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Henry Cow,
Aaron Thompson,
Isaac Hayes,
Steve Hackett,
Lyres,
Index,
Simply Red,
Reagan Youth,
Groovy Waters,
Ituana,
Average White Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barrington Levy,
Maleditus Sound,
Dead Boys,
Sonic Youth,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ohio Players,
Mandrill,
JFA,
Symarip,
Man Parrish,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Velvet Underground,
Television Personalities,
Kevin Saunderson,
Country Teasers,
Yaz,
Main Source,
Lightning Bolt,
Piero Umiliani,
Soft Cell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Yusef Lateef,
Pet Shop Boys,
L. Decosne,
Half Japanese,
Godley & Creme,
Make Up,
Nick Fraelich,
Smog,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang of Four,
The Wake,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Niagra,
Lalann,
KRS-One,
Subhumans,
The Gladiators,
LL Cool J,
Sparks,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.