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 Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
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 synthesizer 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 Amon Düül II to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Barracudas,
China Crisis,
Brothers Johnson,
Ludus,
Hardrive,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Unrelated Segments,
The Smoke,
Funkadelic,
Isaac Hayes,
Icehouse,
Hoover,
The Wake,
Siglo XX,
Whodini,
Warren Ellis,
The Evens,
ABBA,
Bang On A Can,
Kurtis Blow,
Newcleus,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Agitation Free,
Quadrant,
Piero Umiliani,
Niagra,
Grey Daturas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Robert Wyatt,
Gang Starr,
Ponytail,
10cc,
the Fania All-Stars,
Groovy Waters,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bob Dylan,
Marmalade,
David McCallum,
Black Bananas,
Lou Christie,
Supertramp,
Alphaville,
Grauzone,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
AZ,
Chris Corsano,
Youth Brigade,
Visage,
Mantronix,
Freddie Wadling,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Vogues,
Big Daddy Kane,
Crooked Eye,
B.T. Express,
Eli Mardock,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.