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 Italy and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sunsets and Hearts 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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios 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 '60s 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 Bang On A Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Icehouse,
Crooked Eye,
Sparks,
The Neon Judgement,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bobby Sherman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Toasters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
New Age Steppers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Monks,
Erykah Badu,
The Vogues,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pole,
Sarah Menescal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Organ,
The Modern Lovers,
The Durutti Column,
Stockholm Monsters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gang Starr,
Barclay James Harvest,
Hardrive,
The Happenings,
Tom Boy,
Magma,
ABBA,
Royal Trux,
Bizarre Inc.,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jeru the Damaja,
Laurel Aitken,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Christie,
Radio Birdman,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alphaville,
Barry Ungar,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pagans,
Stereo Dub,
Bush Tetras,
Inner City,
Anthony Braxton,
F. McDonald,
Cameo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Brothers Johnson,
The Move,
Bill Near,
Faraquet,
The Golliwogs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Cymande,
The Techniques,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.