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 Palau and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the electroclash 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Beasts of Bourbon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Cheater Slicks,
Joe Smooth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fluxion,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
B.T. Express,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Yellowson,
Index,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Move,
Guru Guru,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rites of Spring,
Surgeon,
The Techniques,
Dave Gahan,
Quadrant,
EPMD,
The Standells,
Absolute Body Control,
Marc Almond,
Basic Channel,
Ronnie Foster,
Traffic Nightmare,
Blossom Toes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Wake,
The Gories,
Curtis Mayfield,
Man Parrish,
Crooked Eye,
The Moleskins,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bluetip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABC,
Drexciya,
The Flesh Eaters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
cv313,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Matthew Bourne,
Hashim,
The Dave Clark Five,
The New Christs,
The Zeros,
Ice-T,
the Sonics,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nick Fraelich,
Schoolly D,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Sisters of Mercy,
OOIOO,
Accadde A,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.