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 Croatia and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jerry's Kids to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Godley & Creme,
Idris Muhammad,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Isaac Hayes,
Roxy Music,
Joyce Sims,
Rosa Yemen,
Tom Boy,
Cymande,
The Monks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skarface,
Unrelated Segments,
Sister Nancy,
Marc Almond,
Saccharine Trust,
F. McDonald,
Clear Light,
Matthew Bourne,
Gong,
Gang of Four,
Eric Dolphy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
OOIOO,
Leonard Cohen,
Excepter,
Banda Bassotti,
The Blues Magoos,
The Happenings,
The Velvet Underground,
Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Angry Samoans,
Groovy Waters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Panda Bear,
Eddi Front,
Althea and Donna,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Motorama,
Ultra Naté,
The Sonics,
Ice-T,
Jacob Miller,
Big Daddy Kane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oneida,
ABBA,
Stetsasonic,
Skaos,
Dave Gahan,
Inner City,
Cameo,
Mars,
Carl Craig,
The Stooges,
the Normal,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.