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 Korea South and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Amon Düül to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 New Christs. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Skaos,
Kayak,
Bluetip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wasted Youth,
kango's stein massive,
Whodini,
MC5,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Leaves,
Scrapy,
Swell Maps,
Bobby Byrd,
Delta 5,
Crime,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Matthew Halsall,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Essential Logic,
Curtis Mayfield,
Arthur Verocai,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Blossom Toes,
Royal Trux,
Agitation Free,
Rapeman,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Index,
Barbara Tucker,
Gil Scott Heron,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Doors,
The Cowsills,
Urselle,
Lower 48,
Accadde A,
Byron Stingily,
UT,
Newcleus,
Crash Course in Science,
Aural Exciters,
Magma,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bad Manners,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gong,
Vladislav Delay,
Livin' Joy,
Ice-T,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Hoover,
Nirvana,
Davy DMX,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joe Smooth,
Cheater Slicks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.