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 India and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Erykah Badu to the funk 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Newcleus,
Reuben Wilson,
Cal Tjader,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Trumans Water,
China Crisis,
The Gap Band,
Dead Boys,
The Sound,
Yellowson,
Aloha Tigers,
The J.B.'s,
The Real Kids,
Donny Hathaway,
Bill Near,
Unwound,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tropical Tobacco,
Massinfluence,
Panda Bear,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hot Snakes,
Soft Machine,
The Residents,
Brand Nubian,
New Order,
Parry Music,
Danielle Patucci,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
La Düsseldorf,
Jesper Dahlback,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gang Starr,
Skaos,
Scratch Acid,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cecil Taylor,
The Beau Brummels,
Peter & Gordon,
Television,
Smog,
The Golliwogs,
The Dead C,
Hoover,
Ten City,
The Young Rascals,
Ituana,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alphaville,
The Monochrome Set,
Camberwell Now,
The Moody Blues,
Average White Band,
The Moleskins,
Half Japanese,
Jawbox,
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.