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 Paraguay and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Stooges to the jazz 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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Kerri Chandler,
Scott Walker,
Mission of Burma,
Wally Richardson,
Robert Wyatt,
Joyce Sims,
The Dave Clark Five,
A Certain Ratio,
The Standells,
The Neon Judgement,
Guru Guru,
Monolake,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Offenders,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Newcleus,
Masters at Work,
Quantec,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gang Starr,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crispy Ambulance,
The New Christs,
Icehouse,
Country Teasers,
The Tremeloes,
Porter Ricks,
Hardrive,
Amazonics,
The Cure,
The Associates,
Lightning Bolt,
The Real Kids,
Aswad,
Delon & Dalcan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Royal Trux,
Pantytec,
Jeff Mills,
Al Stewart,
the Slits,
Ralphi Rosario,
Glenn Branca,
Prince Buster,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Erykah Badu,
Harry Pussy,
Sam Rivers,
EPMD,
Pussy Galore,
Spandau Ballet,
Sarah Menescal,
Kaleidoscope,
Swell Maps,
Kayak,
Avey Tare,
Procol Harum,
Fad Gadget,
a-ha,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.