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 Togo and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Hashim to the jazz 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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Kas Product,
Morten Harket,
Radiohead,
Rapeman,
Hot Snakes,
Con Funk Shun,
Youth Brigade,
Panda Bear,
Porter Ricks,
Lindisfarne,
Tomorrow,
Fat Boys,
The Black Dice,
Warren Ellis,
Crash Course in Science,
Soul II Soul,
JFA,
Stereo Dub,
Shuggie Otis,
the Sonics,
The Skatalites,
Minutemen,
Angry Samoans,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rod Modell,
The Residents,
The Slackers,
Sun Ra,
Brothers Johnson,
Sam Rivers,
Gichy Dan,
Black Sheep,
World's Most,
Brick,
Brand Nubian,
The Searchers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Danielle Patucci,
Kevin Saunderson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Icehouse,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Letta Mbulu,
The Velvet Underground,
Amon Düül II,
Blake Baxter,
Ituana,
Eric Dolphy,
Peter & Gordon,
Tropical Tobacco,
Essential Logic,
Ohio Players,
Clear Light,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Holt,
Joe Finger,
The Mojo Men,
Mandrill,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.