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 Fiji and from Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sixth Finger to the disco 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
The Gun Club,
Liliput,
Stetsasonic,
Trumans Water,
Scan 7,
Monolake,
Pharoah Sanders,
Groovy Waters,
Blossom Toes,
Scrapy,
Bob Dylan,
Quando Quango,
Jeff Lynne,
Tommy Roe,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Durutti Column,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Sandy B,
Matthew Bourne,
Ronnie Foster,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Henry Cow,
Isaac Hayes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Godley & Creme,
Grey Daturas,
Gang of Four,
Glambeats Corp.,
Depeche Mode,
June of 44,
Qualms,
Grauzone,
Robert Görl,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Fugazi,
Infiniti,
Bootsy Collins,
Index,
Kevin Saunderson,
Faust,
Monks,
Tomorrow,
Easy Going,
AZ,
Young Marble Giants,
Fatback Band,
Neu!,
Ludus,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lyres,
Patti Smith,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Flash Fearless,
Marine Girls,
Soft Machine,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.