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 New Zealand and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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. Jay Z And Juelz to the disco 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Near record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Crash Course in Science,
New York Dolls,
Flash Fearless,
OOIOO,
Spoonie Gee,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Swans,
Scott Walker,
Grey Daturas,
Sarah Menescal,
The Grass Roots,
Jimmy McGriff,
Q65,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Crispian St. Peters,
Theoretical Girls,
The Electric Prunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mantronix,
CMW,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Skaos,
JFA,
Harry Pussy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stockholm Monsters,
AZ,
D'Angelo,
Joyce Sims,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Soft Cell,
Bauhaus,
Neu!,
Curtis Mayfield,
Tears for Fears,
Prince Buster,
the Germs,
Absolute Body Control,
Accadde A,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Velvet Underground,
Max Romeo,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Searchers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Slick Rick,
Yazoo,
Wolf Eyes,
R.M.O.,
World's Most,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.