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 Paraguay and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron 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 10cc to the disco 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Kurtis Blow,
Johnny Osbourne,
Animal Collective,
Icehouse,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Livin' Joy,
Excepter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kas Product,
Lucky Dragons,
Grauzone,
Audionom,
The Happenings,
Kenny Larkin,
Oneida,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
R.M.O.,
Joensuu 1685,
Rapeman,
MDC,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
the Soft Cell,
Technova,
Babytalk,
Nick Fraelich,
The Golliwogs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mission of Burma,
Suburban Knight,
the Association,
The Young Rascals,
FM Einheit,
Alice Coltrane,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Visage,
MC5,
Arthur Verocai,
Fear,
ABC,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shoche,
X-101,
Joe Smooth,
Blancmange,
Das Ding,
Erykah Badu,
Boz Scaggs,
Easy Going,
the Sonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Boredoms,
Pierre Henry,
Japan,
The Birthday Party,
Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mantronix,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.