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 Switzerland and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Black Sheep to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Howard Jones,
Black Moon,
Ohio Players,
Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Association,
Susan Cadogan,
Electric Prunes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
R.M.O.,
Make Up,
Warren Ellis,
Cybotron,
Simply Red,
Flipper,
a-ha,
Bang On A Can,
Alice Coltrane,
The Associates,
Harmonia,
Q and Not U,
Pylon,
Andrew Hill,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Massinfluence,
Althea and Donna,
David McCallum,
Lindisfarne,
Khruangbin,
FM Einheit,
X-Ray Spex,
Barry Ungar,
Cymande,
Godley & Creme,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Masters at Work,
Toni Rubio,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Slackers,
Kayak,
Bill Wells,
H. Thieme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DJ Sneak,
Aswad,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Public Enemy,
Cal Tjader,
Qualms,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Icehouse,
James Chance & The Contortions,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kerrie Biddell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
LL Cool J,
Magazine,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.