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 Liberia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer 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 Joey Negro to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Reed,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Human League,
The Mummies,
Visage,
Kool Moe Dee,
Monks,
Ice-T,
Groovy Waters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mandrill,
The Alarm Clocks,
Niagra,
Brass Construction,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Josef K,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Tremeloes,
The Gladiators,
Faust,
Joy Division,
The Gap Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Smoke,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scott Walker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Names,
Slave,
The Selecter,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pagans,
Mars,
New York Dolls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Judy Mowatt,
Laurel Aitken,
Tomorrow,
Deadbeat,
Unwound,
Joe Smooth,
Ohio Players,
E-Dancer,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Sheep,
Au Pairs,
The Walker Brothers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Swell Maps,
Model 500,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sarah Menescal,
Gichy Dan,
Skriet,
Derrick Morgan,
DJ Sneak,
Essential Logic,
Electric Prunes,
Joey Negro,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.