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 Japan and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 sitar 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 Radiohead to the punk 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Sarah Menescal,
The Invisible,
Underground Resistance,
The Fire Engines,
Piero Umiliani,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Chris & Cosey,
Gang Starr,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eurythmics,
The Tremeloes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jandek,
Soft Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
DJ Sneak,
Matthew Bourne,
The Doors,
Anakelly,
Electric Prunes,
The Misunderstood,
Warren Ellis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Moon,
Amazonics,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Womack,
Brothers Johnson,
Youth Brigade,
Kerri Chandler,
Godley & Creme,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sällskapet,
Warsaw,
The Beau Brummels,
Basic Channel,
Eric Copeland,
Marvin Gaye,
Scientists,
Rhythm & Sound,
Malaria!,
The Mummies,
H. Thieme,
Nirvana,
Pantaleimon,
The Motions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Laurel Aitken,
The Wake,
Dave Gahan,
Sam Rivers,
Nico,
Audionom,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.