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 Ecuador and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 mellotron 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 Masters at Work to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Ponytail,
China Crisis,
Flipper,
the Sonics,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jeff Mills,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sun City Girls,
Fatback Band,
Bush Tetras,
Absolute Body Control,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Pretty Things,
The United States of America,
The Last Poets,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yazoo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Donald Byrd,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lungfish,
Funky Four + One,
Girls At Our Best!,
Freddie Wadling,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gladiators,
Hashim,
X-101,
8 Eyed Spy,
Symarip,
Pantytec,
Lower 48,
Eric B and Rakim,
Brass Construction,
Moebius,
Eurythmics,
The Kinks,
Chris & Cosey,
Jacques Brel,
Icehouse,
Scion,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Babytalk,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Dead C,
Derrick Morgan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lou Christie,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobby Byrd,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.