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 Taiwan and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Skarface to the punk 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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
The Gladiators,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Television,
Deadbeat,
Delta 5,
Nas,
Talk Talk,
48th St. Collective,
The Knickerbockers,
Tres Demented,
Whodini,
The Searchers,
Minnie Riperton,
Average White Band,
F. McDonald,
Amazonics,
Soul II Soul,
Sam Rivers,
The New Christs,
Robert Wyatt,
Boredoms,
Eden Ahbez,
Kayak,
Wire,
John Foxx,
The Moleskins,
Interpol,
Minor Threat,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hot Snakes,
Lindisfarne,
The Associates,
Visage,
Faraquet,
Cal Tjader,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Youth Brigade,
Liliput,
The Misunderstood,
Echospace,
Bobby Womack,
Dennis Brown,
Ossler,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Fortunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rufus Thomas,
Ice-T,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kas Product,
Blancmange,
Joe Finger,
Hasil Adkins,
FM Einheit,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Toasters,
These Immortal Souls,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.