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 India and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Masters at Work to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Sister Nancy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Motions,
Pantytec,
Yusef Lateef,
Can,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scientists,
Hardrive,
Lalo Schifrin,
Todd Rundgren,
H. Thieme,
Lou Reed,
The Associates,
Rosa Yemen,
Slave,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Robert Wyatt,
Fear,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fela Kuti,
LL Cool J,
The Slits,
Reagan Youth,
The Litter,
Erasure,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Doors,
X-102,
Zapp,
Ten City,
Dual Sessions,
Nik Kershaw,
Jawbox,
Silicon Teens,
Wire,
David Axelrod,
Gang of Four,
Easy Going,
Joe Finger,
Gang Starr,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Al Stewart,
Pussy Galore,
FM Einheit,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lee Hazlewood,
T.S.O.L.,
Echospace,
Gang Gang Dance,
Supertramp,
Amon Düül II,
T. Rex,
Ludus,
Terry Callier,
Minor Threat,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.