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 Kiribati and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Archie Shepp to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angry Samoans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Marcia Griffiths,
Unrelated Segments,
Warren Ellis,
Tubeway Army,
Janne Schatter,
EPMD,
a-ha,
Radiopuhelimet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lalann,
Judy Mowatt,
Sun Ra,
Thee Headcoats,
Slave,
Roxy Music,
New Age Steppers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
H. Thieme,
Saccharine Trust,
Livin' Joy,
Ice-T,
The Slackers,
the Bar-Kays,
Derrick Morgan,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dead C,
Ultra Naté,
The Knickerbockers,
The Litter,
Wasted Youth,
Quantec,
Mary Jane Girls,
Visage,
Yusef Lateef,
Kool Moe Dee,
Icehouse,
The Toasters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bronski Beat,
Neil Young,
Barry Ungar,
The Trojans,
Lou Christie,
John Cale,
Little Man,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Terry Callier,
ABC,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cheater Slicks,
Television Personalities,
Silicon Teens,
Can,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Grass Roots,
Niagra,
Fatback Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Blossom Toes,
Mo-Dettes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Desert Stars,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.