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 Denmark and from Mexico City.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 China Crisis to the techno 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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Reagan Youth,
The Monochrome Set,
Yusef Lateef,
Dark Day,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fall,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Michelle Simonal,
The Five Americans,
Pantytec,
Barbara Tucker,
D'Angelo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blake Baxter,
Public Enemy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
B.T. Express,
Symarip,
Agent Orange,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Altered Images,
John Coltrane,
Camouflage,
Maleditus Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Procol Harum,
Mark Hollis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Move,
Television,
Crash Course in Science,
Cluster,
Sun City Girls,
Sandy B,
Girls At Our Best!,
Thompson Twins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Desert Stars,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Blues Magoos,
Das Ding,
Bobby Byrd,
Joe Finger,
Skarface,
Fear,
Harmonia,
Clear Light,
The Skatalites,
The Associates,
Alphaville,
CMW,
Bootsy Collins,
Wolf Eyes,
Anthony Braxton,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Music Machine,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.