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 Honduras and from Toronto.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Dead C to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis 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?
Lebanon Hanover,
Country Teasers,
10cc,
Robert Wyatt,
June of 44,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Arcadia,
Eden Ahbez,
Mission of Burma,
Amon Düül,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Knickerbockers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gong,
Black Flag,
Brand Nubian,
The Monochrome Set,
Maurizio,
The Divine Comedy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Delta 5,
Audionom,
DNA,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sister Nancy,
Organ,
Janne Schatter,
Soulsonic Force,
The Slackers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pere Ubu,
Popol Vuh,
Kayak,
DJ Style,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Fania All-Stars,
Royal Trux,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Pus,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bronski Beat,
Public Image Ltd.,
E-Dancer,
Byron Stingily,
Absolute Body Control,
The Golliwogs,
Brick,
Barrington Levy,
Yazoo,
Albert Ayler,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
ABBA,
Godley & Creme,
Erykah Badu,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Terry Callier,
The United States of America,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.