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 Palau and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Groovy Waters to the disco 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Byron Stingily,
Archie Shepp,
Popol Vuh,
Letta Mbulu,
The Young Rascals,
Bootsy Collins,
Kerri Chandler,
Desert Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Groovy Waters,
Avey Tare,
Blake Baxter,
The Velvet Underground,
Funkadelic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Fortunes,
Kayak,
Aswad,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
David Bowie,
Magma,
This Heat,
The J.B.'s,
Whodini,
Stetsasonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Golliwogs,
The Kinks,
The Evens,
Aural Exciters,
Outsiders,
Yazoo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
AZ,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sun City Girls,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Fuzztones,
Scientists,
Pagans,
Pierre Henry,
The Zeros,
The Beau Brummels,
Jacques Brel,
Black Sheep,
Monks,
Piero Umiliani,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Seeds,
The Black Dice,
Soul II Soul,
Rakim,
Sugar Minott,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.