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 Portugal 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes 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 AZ to the crunk 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
Jandek,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Mummies,
ABC,
Lakeside,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deakin,
Motorama,
Schoolly D,
Grey Daturas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Bar-Kays,
The Detroit Cobras,
Whodini,
Hashim,
Suburban Knight,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sister Nancy,
The Evens,
Livin' Joy,
Rakim,
Shoche,
the Human League,
Fad Gadget,
Cal Tjader,
Pulsallama,
cv313,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Moebius,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cameo,
Derrick May,
Eli Mardock,
Second Layer,
Girls At Our Best!,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Angry Samoans,
One Last Wish,
Y Pants,
Dennis Brown,
The Cramps,
Symarip,
The Fire Engines,
Peter & Gordon,
Throbbing Gristle,
Magazine,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Last Poets,
Cheater Slicks,
The Slits,
Fatback Band,
Oblivians,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti.
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.