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 Iceland and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 synthesizer 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Connie Case,
Audionom,
Suburban Knight,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New York Dolls,
Brand Nubian,
The Mojo Men,
Little Man,
Chris Corsano,
Mark Hollis,
Unwound,
Camberwell Now,
Isaac Hayes,
Blancmange,
Gregory Isaacs,
Judy Mowatt,
Junior Murvin,
The Velvet Underground,
The Victims,
Sixth Finger,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
These Immortal Souls,
Nick Fraelich,
The Buckinghams,
The Fugs,
The Seeds,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bad Manners,
Fad Gadget,
Sight & Sound,
Sonic Youth,
Drexciya,
Y Pants,
Robert Görl,
Alison Limerick,
Barrington Levy,
Joe Smooth,
E-Dancer,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Idris Muhammad,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vainqueur,
The Toasters,
B.T. Express,
Jawbox,
Sam Rivers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Desert Stars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Saccharine Trust,
The Happenings,
Bang On A Can,
U.S. Maple,
Infiniti,
Matthew Bourne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.