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 Colombia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Cecil Taylor to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tubeway Army,
Dawn Penn,
Wally Richardson,
the Germs,
Nas,
The Gories,
Roy Ayers,
Chrome,
Mark Hollis,
Soul II Soul,
The Blues Magoos,
Procol Harum,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drive Like Jehu,
Stiv Bators,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Remains,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
DJ Style,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Tres Demented,
Sun Ra,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Severed Heads,
Massinfluence,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Angry Samoans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
kango's stein massive,
The Slits,
Thompson Twins,
Easy Going,
Hardrive,
Section 25,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Names,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Human League,
Letta Mbulu,
Dennis Brown,
Delon & Dalcan,
LL Cool J,
Stockholm Monsters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Terry Callier,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Deakin,
Davy DMX,
The Standells,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Anakelly,
Cybotron,
Bush Tetras,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Bananas,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.