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 India and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Rites of Spring,
The American Breed,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Flag,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aloha Tigers,
Talk Talk,
The Buckinghams,
The Moody Blues,
Silicon Teens,
Ice-T,
Arcadia,
Warren Ellis,
Aswad,
The Slits,
Warsaw,
Theoretical Girls,
The Star Department,
Tres Demented,
Gregory Isaacs,
Desert Stars,
kango's stein massive,
Eric Dolphy,
Television Personalities,
Oblivians,
Q65,
Dave Gahan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gong,
The Gap Band,
Con Funk Shun,
Smog,
Fela Kuti,
Inner City,
Marcia Griffiths,
Slick Rick,
Joy Division,
Panda Bear,
Main Source,
Unrelated Segments,
The Divine Comedy,
Bootsy Collins,
Piero Umiliani,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Public Image Ltd.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Young Marble Giants,
The Monks,
Joensuu 1685,
Parry Music,
ABBA,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultra Naté,
Neil Young,
Kaleidoscope,
a-ha,
The Cramps,
Roxy Music,
Lightning Bolt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
One Last Wish,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.