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 Iceland and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ 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 Electric Prunes to the electroclash 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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Moon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Subhumans,
The Divine Comedy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
China Crisis,
Simply Red,
Main Source,
Stiv Bators,
U.S. Maple,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fire Engines,
Unwound,
Freddie Wadling,
The Sonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Music Machine,
Letta Mbulu,
Graham Central Station,
Porter Ricks,
Mad Mike,
The Tremeloes,
Adolescents,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Electric Prunes,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Buzzcocks,
Agent Orange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marine Girls,
Darondo,
Eli Mardock,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fugazi,
Skaos,
Reuben Wilson,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Bananas,
the Soft Cell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
PIL,
Glenn Branca,
Model 500,
June Days,
Eurythmics,
Gang Starr,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rotary Connection,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Radio Birdman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
D'Angelo,
The J.B.'s,
Joe Finger,
Television Personalities,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.