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 Panama and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the punk 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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Ituana,
Popol Vuh,
Kaleidoscope,
The Blackbyrds,
Sixth Finger,
The Moody Blues,
cv313,
Youth Brigade,
Steve Hackett,
Sam Rivers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
China Crisis,
Echospace,
PIL,
Bob Dylan,
Goldenarms,
These Immortal Souls,
Scott Walker,
Bush Tetras,
Derrick Morgan,
Thompson Twins,
The Monks,
Sugar Minott,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Trumans Water,
The Evens,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Agitation Free,
The Skatalites,
Nick Fraelich,
Monks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gang of Four,
Kas Product,
Joey Negro,
UT,
Japan,
Ossler,
Magma,
The Move,
Tim Buckley,
Cymande,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cybotron,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Cure,
Traffic Nightmare,
Depeche Mode,
Iggy Pop,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aswad,
Man Eating Sloth,
Hardrive,
Joyce Sims,
The Invisible,
Accadde A,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.