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 Barbados and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 arpeggiator 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 Urselle to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Hasil Adkins,
Sun City Girls,
a-ha,
Sugar Minott,
Letta Mbulu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Archie Shepp,
Underground Resistance,
Gichy Dan,
T.S.O.L.,
David Axelrod,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sarah Menescal,
Drexciya,
Black Moon,
Marvin Gaye,
Dual Sessions,
Quando Quango,
The Last Poets,
Rhythm & Sound,
Massinfluence,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Deadbeat,
Cecil Taylor,
Rufus Thomas,
Harmonia,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Bananas,
Warsaw,
Iggy Pop,
Fat Boys,
The Detroit Cobras,
Panda Bear,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
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Sly & The Family Stone,
Depeche Mode,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Althea and Donna,
Bootsy Collins,
Ken Boothe,
The Offenders,
Godley & Creme,
Mantronix,
ABC,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brass Construction,
KRS-One,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scion,
The Doobie Brothers,
B.T. Express,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kas Product,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young,
Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim.
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.