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 Slovenia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Delhi.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jandek to the jazz 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Soul Sonic Force,
Josef K,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Schoolly D,
Los Fastidios,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Delon & Dalcan,
48th St. Collective,
The Music Machine,
UT,
Tim Buckley,
The Pretty Things,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Janne Schatter,
John Coltrane,
Young Marble Giants,
Alice Coltrane,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Invisible,
The Gap Band,
Aloha Tigers,
the Sonics,
In Retrospect,
Tubeway Army,
Camouflage,
Barry Ungar,
Curtis Mayfield,
Reagan Youth,
Crispian St. Peters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dennis Brown,
The Seeds,
Sonic Youth,
The Move,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fugazi,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Happenings,
Jacob Miller,
The Cowsills,
James White and The Blacks,
Max Romeo,
Zapp,
Amon Düül II,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Angels of Light,
Kayak,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Real Kids,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
H. Thieme,
Crash Course in Science,
The Buckinghams,
Newcleus,
Connie Case,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Suicide,
Mission of Burma,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.