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 Norway and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum 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 Audionom to the funk 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cluster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gerry Rafferty,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Iggy Pop,
The Residents,
Rotary Connection,
Ice-T,
Bush Tetras,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Depeche Mode,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Spoonie Gee,
The Doors,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eli Mardock,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young,
The Shadows of Knight,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joyce Sims,
Essential Logic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Minor Threat,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jeff Lynne,
Quadrant,
Skarface,
Chris Corsano,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Vogues,
The Smiths,
Tropical Tobacco,
Toni Rubio,
Connie Case,
The Remains,
The Toasters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Smooth,
Brothers Johnson,
Lucky Dragons,
The Human League,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Smoke,
The Count Five,
Average White Band,
Livin' Joy,
Ultra Naté,
The Five Americans,
the Slits,
K-Klass,
Crooked Eye,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.