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 Rwanda and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 Derrick Morgan to the funk 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
The Evens,
Alton Ellis,
Scientists,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Black Moon,
Niagra,
Duran Duran,
Lindisfarne,
Dennis Brown,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Sneak,
Donny Hathaway,
Index,
Faraquet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Grass Roots,
Susan Cadogan,
Scrapy,
Pulsallama,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rufus Thomas,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
EPMD,
Trumans Water,
Pantytec,
Steve Hackett,
Swell Maps,
Lucky Dragons,
Thee Headcoats,
The Black Dice,
Accadde A,
Marmalade,
ABBA,
Pylon,
Quadrant,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Harmonia,
Rotary Connection,
Archie Shepp,
The Dirtbombs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Deadbeat,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Zeros,
The Durutti Column,
Nico,
The Beau Brummels,
Ludus,
Zapp,
China Crisis,
Barbara Tucker,
Jawbox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
World's Most,
Bad Manners,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yusef Lateef,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.