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 San Marino and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Lou Reed 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cramps,
Cheater Slicks,
Organ,
Eric Copeland,
Bad Manners,
Davy DMX,
Shuggie Otis,
Con Funk Shun,
Derrick May,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Au Pairs,
Radiohead,
Charles Mingus,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ohio Players,
Scrapy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Todd Rundgren,
Scientists,
Heaven 17,
Bronski Beat,
B.T. Express,
Young Marble Giants,
Zapp,
Althea and Donna,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Babytalk,
Excepter,
Soulsonic Force,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Whodini,
Barry Ungar,
The Moody Blues,
The Gories,
Jawbox,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Barracudas,
Derrick Morgan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Piero Umiliani,
The Names,
The Offenders,
Trumans Water,
The Sonics,
Terry Callier,
Sixth Finger,
Monks,
Half Japanese,
Mad Mike,
Q65,
The Remains,
Banda Bassotti,
The Evens,
The Velvet Underground,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.