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 Italy and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Kool Moe Dee to the funk 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Icehouse,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
ABC,
T. Rex,
Lindisfarne,
Stereo Dub,
Organ,
Scrapy,
Agitation Free,
Jesper Dahlback,
Audionom,
Ken Boothe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
CMW,
The Associates,
Colin Newman,
Byron Stingily,
kango's stein massive,
Gichy Dan,
Susan Cadogan,
Freddie Wadling,
the Normal,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joe Smooth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Banda Bassotti,
Junior Murvin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobby Byrd,
OOIOO,
Ohio Players,
John Cale,
Index,
Gang Gang Dance,
Franke,
Warren Ellis,
cv313,
Alton Ellis,
Tom Boy,
Theoretical Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Selecter,
Robert Wyatt,
The Velvet Underground,
Arcadia,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Donny Hathaway,
Amon Düül,
Yaz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Oblivians,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scratch Acid,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.