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 Guinea-Bissau and from Philadelphia.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Mighty Diamonds to the grime 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
Mission of Burma,
The Mojo Men,
Black Flag,
Eli Mardock,
Sparks,
Crime,
Q and Not U,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sugar Minott,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mr. Review,
kango's stein massive,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The J.B.'s,
Sonic Youth,
The Seeds,
Easy Going,
Bob Dylan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ituana,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Johnny Osbourne,
David McCallum,
The Trojans,
Lyres,
L. Decosne,
The Kinks,
Yellowson,
Little Man,
Colin Newman,
Television Personalities,
Intrusion,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cecil Taylor,
Monolake,
Vainqueur,
Moby Grape,
Kerrie Biddell,
Josef K,
Lakeside,
The Moleskins,
Dual Sessions,
Roy Ayers,
Tres Demented,
The Evens,
David Bowie,
Kaleidoscope,
The Neon Judgement,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Howard Jones,
The Blues Magoos,
The Five Americans,
Ice-T,
Warren Ellis,
Saccharine Trust,
EPMD,
Lou Reed,
Iggy Pop,
Drexciya,
Drive Like Jehu,
Liliput,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.