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 Bulgaria and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 marimba 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 Malaria! to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Electric Prunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jerry's Kids,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mission of Burma,
Donny Hathaway,
Crime,
Matthew Halsall,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Frankie Knuckles,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gabor Szabo,
Sarah Menescal,
Rekid,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
MC5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Human League,
The American Breed,
Lindisfarne,
EPMD,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Danielle Patucci,
Barclay James Harvest,
Arab on Radar,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jandek,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rotary Connection,
Second Layer,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lalann,
Peter & Gordon,
Lower 48,
T.S.O.L.,
DJ Sneak,
Cheater Slicks,
Rapeman,
Nils Olav,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chris Corsano,
Cluster,
The Fire Engines,
This Heat,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Sonics,
Sun City Girls,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Surgeon,
Sound Behaviour,
The United States of America,
Pylon,
Mandrill,
Inner City,
The Busters,
Lou Reed,
Crispy Ambulance,
D'Angelo,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.