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 Malta and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 harpsichord 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 Pole to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Half Japanese,
Jimmy McGriff,
L. Decosne,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Mills,
Fear,
Carl Craig,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pantaleimon,
The Velvet Underground,
Soulsonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lindisfarne,
Eric Copeland,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Moss Icon,
Hot Snakes,
The Birthday Party,
Arab on Radar,
Con Funk Shun,
Silicon Teens,
AZ,
The Buckinghams,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Bananas,
Lou Christie,
Robert Görl,
Oblivians,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Grass Roots,
Henry Cow,
The Toasters,
The Names,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eli Mardock,
Brick,
Babytalk,
Cluster,
The Modern Lovers,
The Martian,
Drexciya,
Throbbing Gristle,
Brass Construction,
Derrick Morgan,
Thee Headcoats,
Mr. Review,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alison Limerick,
Prince Buster,
Oneida,
The Smiths,
Tommy Roe,
the Sonics,
La Düsseldorf,
Lucky Dragons,
Quadrant,
Dual Sessions,
The Shadows of Knight,
Barrington Levy,
Sandy B,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.