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 Armenia and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord 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 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Soft Cell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
PIL,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brothers Johnson,
Althea and Donna,
Lucky Dragons,
Kenny Larkin,
Judy Mowatt,
The Techniques,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bobby Womack,
Easy Going,
Tubeway Army,
June Days,
In Retrospect,
Babytalk,
Liliput,
Silicon Teens,
Minny Pops,
Glenn Branca,
Junior Murvin,
One Last Wish,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Albert Ayler,
The Young Rascals,
Brass Construction,
Colin Newman,
John Cale,
Monolake,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pole,
Agitation Free,
Ronan,
Joyce Sims,
Index,
Ultimate Spinach,
Isaac Hayes,
Freddie Wadling,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Grass Roots,
Yusef Lateef,
Magazine,
The Gladiators,
Flash Fearless,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Amazonics,
Oblivians,
Depeche Mode,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Pus,
New Age Steppers,
The Music Machine,
Joe Finger,
Guru Guru,
The Angels of Light,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.