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 Ivory Coast and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the crunk 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Babytalk,
Pantytec,
The Five Americans,
Piero Umiliani,
Sight & Sound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Alison Limerick,
Lou Christie,
Lalo Schifrin,
Vainqueur,
Alice Coltrane,
The Detroit Cobras,
Prince Buster,
Andrew Hill,
Danielle Patucci,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric Dolphy,
Accadde A,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lebanon Hanover,
June of 44,
Drexciya,
Frankie Knuckles,
Banda Bassotti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stereo Dub,
Al Stewart,
Mark Hollis,
Sam Rivers,
Agitation Free,
the Soft Cell,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lindisfarne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Amon Düül II,
The Trojans,
The Pop Group,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gang of Four,
Bluetip,
Ice-T,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fear,
Minny Pops,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
D'Angelo,
Blancmange,
Franke,
Drive Like Jehu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pole,
R.M.O.,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Moon,
Marmalade,
Rotary Connection,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.