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 Libya and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Section 25 to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Funkadelic,
Tim Buckley,
The Fuzztones,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cymande,
The Doobie Brothers,
Royal Trux,
Alphaville,
Maurizio,
The Skatalites,
Neil Young,
Gong,
cv313,
Camberwell Now,
The Gap Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Intrusion,
Tom Boy,
Average White Band,
Skarface,
Traffic Nightmare,
Simply Red,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
The American Breed,
Fatback Band,
Fear,
Roxette,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Surgeon,
Rekid,
Quantec,
Nick Fraelich,
Suburban Knight,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moss Icon,
Albert Ayler,
The Grass Roots,
The Human League,
Michelle Simonal,
Groovy Waters,
Minutemen,
Nirvana,
Matthew Bourne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Outsiders,
Drexciya,
the Normal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Evens,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Beau Brummels,
The Black Dice,
Soft Cell,
Junior Murvin,
Pole,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.