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 Kazakhstan and from Toronto.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Invisible to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Byron Stingily,
The Gories,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Letta Mbulu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rosa Yemen,
Suburban Knight,
Pierre Henry,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Schoolly D,
Piero Umiliani,
The Mummies,
X-102,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Human League,
Howard Jones,
Leonard Cohen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brand Nubian,
Rites of Spring,
Sex Pistols,
Mars,
cv313,
Flipper,
Kurtis Blow,
The Count Five,
Pantytec,
China Crisis,
Porter Ricks,
Scan 7,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joe Smooth,
Underground Resistance,
Fluxion,
Gichy Dan,
Severed Heads,
The Barracudas,
Crime,
Arthur Verocai,
Bang On A Can,
Danielle Patucci,
Reagan Youth,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Görl,
The Standells,
Hardrive,
Camouflage,
Sam Rivers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jeff Mills,
Shuggie Otis,
Susan Cadogan,
Scrapy,
Agitation Free,
Mr. Review,
Basic Channel,
Chrome,
Alison Limerick,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.