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 Fiji and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Sonics,
Smog,
Essential Logic,
Scan 7,
Lungfish,
Bobby Womack,
The Zeros,
Banda Bassotti,
Organ,
Silicon Teens,
The Fugs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Moby Grape,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Urselle,
Jerry's Kids,
The Move,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lakeside,
kango's stein massive,
Deepchord,
Procol Harum,
Crispy Ambulance,
Quadrant,
Sonny Sharrock,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Yazoo,
Lou Reed,
The Tremeloes,
Marine Girls,
Stetsasonic,
The Barracudas,
Suburban Knight,
A Certain Ratio,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Hardrive,
Desert Stars,
Lower 48,
Kool Moe Dee,
The American Breed,
Lalann,
The J.B.'s,
the Bar-Kays,
Goldenarms,
The Sonics,
Intrusion,
Soft Machine,
The Walker Brothers,
Skaos,
Eurythmics,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sound Behaviour,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Danielle Patucci,
Charles Mingus,
Jeff Mills,
Roy Ayers,
Deakin,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.