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 Georgia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Houston.
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 synthesizer 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 Camberwell Now to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
UT,
Cluster,
In Retrospect,
Johnny Clarke,
the Normal,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Essential Logic,
Babytalk,
Ronnie Foster,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Desert Stars,
Eric Dolphy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Underground Resistance,
Cal Tjader,
Rekid,
Dennis Brown,
Lakeside,
Grauzone,
Lungfish,
Gerry Rafferty,
Anthony Braxton,
Country Teasers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chrome,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sonny Sharrock,
Josef K,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wings,
Procol Harum,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Los Fastidios,
Visage,
Alice Coltrane,
Scion,
Crash Course in Science,
Cheater Slicks,
Gang Green,
The Tremeloes,
Marine Girls,
The Fugs,
Eric Copeland,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Flag,
Nirvana,
Smog,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Invisible,
The Zeros,
Radiohead,
Hot Snakes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dawn Penn,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Human League,
Intrusion,
Marvin Gaye,
X-101,
Tubeway Army,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.