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 Norway and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Delta 5 to the disco 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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Agent Orange,
Fat Boys,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roxy Music,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New York Dolls,
Ken Boothe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Graham Central Station,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Arab on Radar,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Dirtbombs,
Little Man,
The Slits,
Ten City,
Ossler,
Electric Prunes,
Soulsonic Force,
Cameo,
Organ,
Panda Bear,
Erasure,
Judy Mowatt,
Hasil Adkins,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fire Engines,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Quadrant,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Durutti Column,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Young Marble Giants,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gang Starr,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Bananas,
Eden Ahbez,
The Five Americans,
James White and The Blacks,
Brick,
Barry Ungar,
Flash Fearless,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Pus,
Max Romeo,
Amon Düül,
Anthony Braxton,
Pharoah Sanders,
Loose Ends,
Josef K,
Pagans,
Whodini,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.