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 Mauritius and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 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 DNA to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Echospace,
These Immortal Souls,
Mission of Burma,
Fluxion,
Joey Negro,
The Beau Brummels,
Babytalk,
The Happenings,
Country Teasers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aloha Tigers,
The United States of America,
Hardrive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Young Marble Giants,
Masters at Work,
Oblivians,
Lalo Schifrin,
Essential Logic,
Janne Schatter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stetsasonic,
Bad Manners,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Pop Group,
Sex Pistols,
Tropical Tobacco,
Aaron Thompson,
Alton Ellis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marc Almond,
Cybotron,
Judy Mowatt,
D'Angelo,
Subhumans,
The Fall,
Peter and Kerry,
Quantec,
Amon Düül,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gun Club,
Popol Vuh,
Joy Division,
Symarip,
K-Klass,
The Blackbyrds,
Dorothy Ashby,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cowsills,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Last Poets,
Avey Tare,
Al Stewart,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Boz Scaggs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gang Starr,
Underground Resistance,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.