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 Senegal and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 Jacques Brel 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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Wings,
the Germs,
Japan,
Lightning Bolt,
Interpol,
Donny Hathaway,
Todd Rundgren,
Au Pairs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Prince Buster,
Stiv Bators,
Lower 48,
Yellowson,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Busters,
Visage,
Joey Negro,
The Happenings,
Agent Orange,
June of 44,
John Holt,
Ten City,
Lou Christie,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Mad Mike,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Chrome,
Joyce Sims,
Gang Green,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
New Age Steppers,
The Moleskins,
Neil Young,
La Düsseldorf,
PIL,
MDC,
The Slits,
Iggy Pop,
Warren Ellis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boz Scaggs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Zapp,
LL Cool J,
Piero Umiliani,
Nas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
MC5,
Robert Hood,
Camberwell Now,
Clear Light,
Newcleus,
The Pretty Things,
Lakeside,
The Litter,
Pharoah Sanders,
E-Dancer,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fugs,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.