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 Qatar and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Saccharine Trust to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Joy Division,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gil Scott Heron,
Desert Stars,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Idris Muhammad,
Aswad,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
U.S. Maple,
Absolute Body Control,
Wings,
The J.B.'s,
The Knickerbockers,
Shuggie Otis,
Jerry's Kids,
Audionom,
Monolake,
Cluster,
Yellowson,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Black Moon,
Pulsallama,
Maurizio,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sight & Sound,
John Holt,
John Coltrane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Agitation Free,
Average White Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Zeros,
Outsiders,
Eve St. Jones,
Lee Hazlewood,
Barbara Tucker,
Black Pus,
Soul Sonic Force,
Judy Mowatt,
Easy Going,
Skaos,
Cymande,
Stereo Dub,
Kas Product,
Pylon,
FM Einheit,
Lower 48,
Inner City,
Brick,
Monks,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
New York Dolls,
Eden Ahbez,
Main Source,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.