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 Mexico and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Michael McDonald 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 Gun Club to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Brothers Johnson,
Kayak,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Urselle,
CMW,
Sun Ra,
The Neon Judgement,
The Moody Blues,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Bar-Kays,
Minny Pops,
Scientists,
X-102,
Camouflage,
New Age Steppers,
Fatback Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fear,
L. Decosne,
World's Most,
In Retrospect,
Funky Four + One,
Wire,
Michelle Simonal,
Slave,
Ronan,
Eric Dolphy,
Absolute Body Control,
Television Personalities,
Anthony Braxton,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sight & Sound,
Harry Pussy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Curtis Mayfield,
Toni Rubio,
Monolake,
Simply Red,
Public Enemy,
Skarface,
Talk Talk,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yellowson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sparks,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Public Image Ltd.,
Black Bananas,
Cameo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Subhumans,
Faust,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pulsallama,
Deadbeat,
Vainqueur,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.