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 Kenya and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Glasgow.
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 organ 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 Camberwell Now to the dance 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Little Man,
Stereo Dub,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dennis Brown,
Bad Manners,
Inner City,
Skaos,
Sixth Finger,
The Doors,
Tubeway Army,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
X-Ray Spex,
Chris Corsano,
the Fania All-Stars,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sam Rivers,
Spandau Ballet,
Rufus Thomas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mark Hollis,
Todd Rundgren,
The Tremeloes,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Busters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Con Funk Shun,
Pierre Henry,
Kool Moe Dee,
Can,
Audionom,
Swans,
Marmalade,
John Coltrane,
Motorama,
Lyres,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sister Nancy,
ABC,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mr. Review,
KRS-One,
Joe Finger,
Moss Icon,
Reagan Youth,
Aswad,
Gil Scott Heron,
John Cale,
Radiopuhelimet,
Blake Baxter,
Brass Construction,
Terry Callier,
The Velvet Underground,
Wings,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Monks,
Lakeside,
Cluster,
Derrick May,
Funky Four + One,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.