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 Mexico and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 chamberlin 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 Zero Boys to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Electric Prunes,
Ohio Players,
The Martian,
Public Enemy,
Chris & Cosey,
Heaven 17,
Robert Wyatt,
Ronan,
June Days,
Cal Tjader,
The Move,
Scan 7,
The Velvet Underground,
Howard Jones,
Ronnie Foster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Standells,
Amon Düül,
Silicon Teens,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
DNA,
Delon & Dalcan,
Japan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Yellowson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wings,
Minor Threat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Janne Schatter,
Roy Ayers,
Josef K,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Grandmaster Flash,
Quantec,
Mark Hollis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Invisible,
The Busters,
Alice Coltrane,
Black Sheep,
Laurel Aitken,
Crash Course in Science,
Judy Mowatt,
The J.B.'s,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter & Gordon,
The Selecter,
the Sonics,
Ultra Naté,
Kas Product,
The Birthday Party,
Mo-Dettes,
The Sonics,
The Tremeloes,
The Residents,
Lightning Bolt,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.