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 Chile and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar 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 Peter and Kerry to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Soft Machine,
The Move,
Moby Grape,
Darondo,
Joe Finger,
Sarah Menescal,
Flash Fearless,
Warsaw,
Matthew Halsall,
Essential Logic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sandy B,
Rites of Spring,
The Cure,
The Neon Judgement,
EPMD,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Stooges,
MDC,
Hardrive,
the Bar-Kays,
Glambeats Corp.,
Parry Music,
The Kinks,
The Raincoats,
The Litter,
Ossler,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minor Threat,
Motorama,
Fugazi,
Grauzone,
Stockholm Monsters,
Josef K,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Hood,
Skriet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Circle Jerks,
Hasil Adkins,
Shoche,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Flipper,
Sun City Girls,
Archie Shepp,
B.T. Express,
Brick,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter and Kerry,
Ohio Players,
Qualms,
The Seeds,
Kayak,
Banda Bassotti,
Nik Kershaw,
Maurizio,
Sparks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Buzzcocks,
New Age Steppers,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.