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 United States and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Fatback Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Five Americans,
The Evens,
Icehouse,
Girls At Our Best!,
Steve Hackett,
Groovy Waters,
Kerri Chandler,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Scrapy,
This Heat,
Sarah Menescal,
Amon Düül II,
Todd Terry,
Quadrant,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cure,
Ponytail,
Theoretical Girls,
Sun City Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
Y Pants,
Altered Images,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jacob Miller,
In Retrospect,
Hardrive,
The Smiths,
The Count Five,
Siglo XX,
Scion,
Talk Talk,
the Human League,
Amazonics,
Erykah Badu,
Boz Scaggs,
Circle Jerks,
Jandek,
Scott Walker,
Ralphi Rosario,
Robert Görl,
Suicide,
The Star Department,
Bauhaus,
Eurythmics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Shuggie Otis,
Spoonie Gee,
Soft Cell,
Gang Green,
Isaac Hayes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Essential Logic,
Todd Rundgren,
The Birthday Party,
Sam Rivers,
Andrew Hill,
Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.
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.