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 Honduras and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 marimba 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 Hasil Adkins to the crunk 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Byrd,
Brick,
Blancmange,
The Fugs,
Outsiders,
E-Dancer,
48th St. Collective,
Michelle Simonal,
Eden Ahbez,
The Human League,
David Bowie,
Boz Scaggs,
Babytalk,
Connie Case,
Simply Red,
Absolute Body Control,
John Lydon,
The Cure,
The Dirtbombs,
Eddi Front,
LL Cool J,
Terry Callier,
Flamin' Groovies,
Amon Düül II,
Intrusion,
Derrick May,
Pierre Henry,
Country Joe & The Fish,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Second Layer,
Gang Starr,
Kerri Chandler,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pylon,
Negative Approach,
Ultimate Spinach,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
DJ Style,
Matthew Halsall,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tom Boy,
Scan 7,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Can,
Glenn Branca,
Sällskapet,
Altered Images,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Buckinghams,
Joyce Sims,
Young Marble Giants,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fela Kuti,
Wings,
Radio Birdman,
Tim Buckley,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.