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 Slovakia and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Q and Not U to the grime 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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joyce Sims,
Ponytail,
Mandrill,
Zapp,
Blancmange,
Liliput,
Isaac Hayes,
Tres Demented,
Jerry's Kids,
Suburban Knight,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boz Scaggs,
KRS-One,
Pantaleimon,
Man Parrish,
Loose Ends,
Wally Richardson,
Television Personalities,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Albert Ayler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sun Ra,
Soft Machine,
Ohio Players,
The Saints,
The Music Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Index,
the Normal,
Todd Terry,
Henry Cow,
Slave,
Public Enemy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Masters at Work,
Kevin Saunderson,
Magma,
R.M.O.,
Terrestrial Tones,
Whodini,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
UT,
The Techniques,
The Vogues,
Depeche Mode,
Smog,
Easy Going,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fear,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rotary Connection,
Bang On A Can,
Nation of Ulysses,
CMW,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.