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 Yemen and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Scott Walker,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Slits,
Country Teasers,
Man Eating Sloth,
T.S.O.L.,
The Kinks,
Drexciya,
Michelle Simonal,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rufus Thomas,
Ossler,
Flash Fearless,
Moss Icon,
Howard Jones,
Nils Olav,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Parry Music,
Scrapy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Andrew Hill,
Animal Collective,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ronan,
Tom Boy,
Fluxion,
Piero Umiliani,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Technova,
Marc Almond,
Eric Dolphy,
Sister Nancy,
Roy Ayers,
The Monochrome Set,
Pussy Galore,
China Crisis,
Outsiders,
Ralphi Rosario,
Skriet,
Gang Gang Dance,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Walker Brothers,
Oneida,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fear,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ken Boothe,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Bananas,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alice Coltrane,
T. Rex,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Spandau Ballet,
Prince Buster,
Mary Jane Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.