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 Nauru and from Hong Kong.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 Vladislav Delay to the disco 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
The Vogues,
Gang Gang Dance,
Big Daddy Kane,
Moebius,
The Techniques,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Prince Buster,
The Slackers,
The Mummies,
the Human League,
Monolake,
Nirvana,
Derrick Morgan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Babytalk,
These Immortal Souls,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Pus,
John Coltrane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang of Four,
Section 25,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deadbeat,
Stiv Bators,
Nick Fraelich,
Bronski Beat,
Adolescents,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rapeman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Aswad,
The Electric Prunes,
Derrick May,
Cameo,
Crash Course in Science,
Glenn Branca,
The Skatalites,
Terry Callier,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rotary Connection,
The Angels of Light,
Television,
Flash Fearless,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Desert Stars,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Minnie Riperton,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jacques Brel,
Reagan Youth,
Hardrive,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Clear Light,
Laurel Aitken,
Eric Dolphy,
The Remains,
Quando Quango,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.