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 Hungary and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar 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 the Normal to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
Spoonie Gee,
Reuben Wilson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harpers Bizarre,
Adolescents,
Susan Cadogan,
Pagans,
Gang Starr,
Underground Resistance,
cv313,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brand Nubian,
Das Ding,
The Associates,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Remains,
The J.B.'s,
Tubeway Army,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerri Chandler,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marmalade,
Quantec,
Howard Jones,
The Moody Blues,
Sexual Harrassment,
Derrick Morgan,
The Doors,
Rod Modell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Angry Samoans,
Theoretical Girls,
Fugazi,
Charles Mingus,
the Fania All-Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television Personalities,
John Holt,
MDC,
Von Mondo,
Interpol,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Parry Music,
Crime,
Rufus Thomas,
Section 25,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mandrill,
Archie Shepp,
Blancmange,
Crash Course in Science,
The Invisible,
Bizarre Inc.,
Main Source,
Khruangbin,
New York Dolls,
Sound Behaviour,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cal Tjader,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.