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 Thailand and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hashim to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
the Normal,
Cameo,
The United States of America,
The Saints,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Darondo,
Echospace,
The Moody Blues,
Johnny Clarke,
E-Dancer,
The Invisible,
Rhythm & Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Jacob Miller,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Harmonia,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Albert Ayler,
Amon Düül II,
Sun City Girls,
T. Rex,
a-ha,
Camouflage,
The Electric Prunes,
Deadbeat,
The Beau Brummels,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Radiohead,
Graham Central Station,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
June of 44,
The Index,
The Knickerbockers,
Joey Negro,
Banda Bassotti,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Morten Harket,
Janne Schatter,
John Lydon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool Moe Dee,
Idris Muhammad,
Ultimate Spinach,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Barbara Tucker,
Ralphi Rosario,
Japan,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Swans,
The Vogues,
Pere Ubu,
OOIOO,
Sunsets and Hearts,
cv313,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.