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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the oboe 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 Skaos to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
The Five Americans,
Soul II Soul,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Spoonie Gee,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dorothy Ashby,
Faust,
Cal Tjader,
Jeff Lynne,
Pantaleimon,
Bauhaus,
the Normal,
Newcleus,
the Human League,
Tim Buckley,
The Red Krayola,
The Pretty Things,
Scan 7,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deepchord,
Bill Wells,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Das Ding,
Essential Logic,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fugazi,
Pole,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Japan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marcia Griffiths,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Fuzztones,
Oneida,
Harry Pussy,
Joy Division,
Barbara Tucker,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bill Near,
Fad Gadget,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Johnny Clarke,
Colin Newman,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pagans,
Blossom Toes,
MDC,
Malaria!,
Max Romeo,
The Toasters,
David Axelrod,
ABC,
Quadrant,
Matthew Halsall,
Robert Görl,
UT,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
R.M.O.,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.