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 Saudi Arabia and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 oboe 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 The Fuzztones to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Ponytail,
Graham Central Station,
Motorama,
Pagans,
Bad Manners,
Alison Limerick,
Boredoms,
Joey Negro,
Niagra,
Mo-Dettes,
Patti Smith,
Amazonics,
Stockholm Monsters,
Anakelly,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bauhaus,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sam Rivers,
Quantec,
The Last Poets,
Trumans Water,
Pantytec,
John Foxx,
Grauzone,
This Heat,
Aloha Tigers,
Siglo XX,
The Slackers,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Associates,
Chris Corsano,
Bill Wells,
48th St. Collective,
Black Flag,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Robert Wyatt,
Godley & Creme,
Harmonia,
PIL,
New Order,
Lower 48,
Fear,
Qualms,
Royal Trux,
DJ Sneak,
Icehouse,
Index,
AZ,
Reagan Youth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Franke,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Darondo,
Erasure,
Ralphi Rosario,
Altered Images,
R.M.O.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.