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 India and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Tremeloes to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Ten City,
Alice Coltrane,
Avey Tare,
The Monks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lucky Dragons,
Mission of Burma,
The Stooges,
Ludus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun Ra,
Schoolly D,
Kerrie Biddell,
Spoonie Gee,
Terry Callier,
Oblivians,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eden Ahbez,
Minor Threat,
The Star Department,
Second Layer,
Crooked Eye,
Guru Guru,
The Seeds,
Iggy Pop,
Sonic Youth,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gladiators,
LL Cool J,
Fluxion,
R.M.O.,
The Fall,
The Monochrome Set,
Andrew Hill,
The Motions,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Womack,
Dennis Brown,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
ABC,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arab on Radar,
Boogie Down Productions,
The United States of America,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Moon,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
JFA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wally Richardson,
Crime,
the Slits,
Ohio Players,
The Move,
The Knickerbockers,
Pierre Henry,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.