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 France and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Chris Corsano to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
The Doors,
The Remains,
Joy Division,
cv313,
The Victims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Moleskins,
Lalo Schifrin,
MDC,
Procol Harum,
Prince Buster,
Pulsallama,
Sixth Finger,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pussy Galore,
Mark Hollis,
The Star Department,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Vogues,
Sun Ra,
David Bowie,
Crispy Ambulance,
Blancmange,
Subhumans,
Yellowson,
Icehouse,
Ronan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Brothers Johnson,
Laurel Aitken,
H. Thieme,
Mary Jane Girls,
Public Image Ltd.,
Agitation Free,
Electric Prunes,
Lakeside,
Shuggie Otis,
Marvin Gaye,
Swell Maps,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Funky Four + One,
Niagra,
Derrick Morgan,
Yusef Lateef,
Blossom Toes,
Fela Kuti,
Los Fastidios,
Rites of Spring,
DJ Style,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Chris Corsano,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Junior Murvin,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donny Hathaway,
John Lydon,
Lungfish,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.