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 Malaysia and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 Robert Wyatt to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
June Days,
The Fortunes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Surgeon,
This Heat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Big Daddy Kane,
Khruangbin,
Nico,
Swell Maps,
David Axelrod,
Juan Atkins,
Bang On A Can,
Alphaville,
Carl Craig,
Television Personalities,
CMW,
Heaven 17,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Blancmange,
The Trojans,
Eve St. Jones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Monochrome Set,
Sight & Sound,
Fat Boys,
Slick Rick,
The Neon Judgement,
Minnie Riperton,
Minny Pops,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Names,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jandek,
Colin Newman,
Radiohead,
cv313,
Average White Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pole,
The Grass Roots,
Q65,
Talk Talk,
Maleditus Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Happenings,
Basic Channel,
Camberwell Now,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hardrive,
The Raincoats,
Idris Muhammad,
Connie Case,
Brick,
Chrome,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Buckinghams,
The Standells,
Barbara Tucker,
K-Klass,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.