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 Kosovo and from New York.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Detroit Cobras to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator 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 guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Simply Red,
Groovy Waters,
Minor Threat,
Thee Headcoats,
Lightning Bolt,
The Trojans,
Los Fastidios,
DJ Sneak,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Maurizio,
Gabor Szabo,
Prince Buster,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pagans,
Yusef Lateef,
The Martian,
Throbbing Gristle,
Alphaville,
Technova,
Colin Newman,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camouflage,
Ice-T,
Television Personalities,
Nico,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Swell Maps,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mandrill,
The Neon Judgement,
Main Source,
Neil Young,
In Retrospect,
DJ Style,
Rapeman,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lower 48,
The Kinks,
Section 25,
The New Christs,
Ten City,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lindisfarne,
the Swans,
cv313,
Yaz,
Minnie Riperton,
Animal Collective,
Sixth Finger,
Bluetip,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Count Five,
Vladislav Delay,
Gang Gang Dance,
Easy Going,
Fela Kuti,
The Slackers,
Michelle Simonal,
Second Layer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.