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 Mauritius and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Blackbyrds to the grunge 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
The Count Five,
Black Flag,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Selecter,
Supertramp,
Tom Boy,
Dennis Brown,
Vainqueur,
The Busters,
Pierre Henry,
Maurizio,
Reagan Youth,
Avey Tare,
China Crisis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nils Olav,
Blake Baxter,
Hashim,
Massinfluence,
The Zeros,
Icehouse,
Ponytail,
Dawn Penn,
Mo-Dettes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Agent Orange,
Monks,
Moebius,
Bobby Womack,
The Raincoats,
the Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Television Personalities,
Funkadelic,
Rekid,
Angry Samoans,
Joensuu 1685,
Peter and Kerry,
Cluster,
Scott Walker,
The Buckinghams,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crash Course in Science,
Yellowson,
Half Japanese,
Clear Light,
Public Image Ltd.,
Quantec,
Kaleidoscope,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ice-T,
The Barracudas,
Funky Four + One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Divine Comedy,
The Last Poets,
Crooked Eye,
The Tremeloes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.