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 Burkina and from New York.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 spring reverb 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 Mantronix to the rap 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 The Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Danielle Patucci,
Quantec,
Fatback Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Ponytail,
Rites of Spring,
The Standells,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
FM Einheit,
Amazonics,
The Black Dice,
Toni Rubio,
10cc,
Average White Band,
Fluxion,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kenny Larkin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stetsasonic,
Clear Light,
World's Most,
Iggy Pop,
Radiopuhelimet,
Hasil Adkins,
Pulsallama,
Suicide,
Rakim,
The Tremeloes,
John Coltrane,
Public Image Ltd.,
Magazine,
Jawbox,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ornette Coleman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mad Mike,
The Gun Club,
The Doobie Brothers,
Goldenarms,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
Index,
Jeff Mills,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Spoonie Gee,
The Trojans,
Marc Almond,
The Angels of Light,
Scion,
The Doors,
The Stooges,
The Remains,
Desert Stars,
Cheater Slicks,
Jandek,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crispian St. Peters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.