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 Guyana and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Zero Boys to the funk 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
New Age Steppers,
Pantaleimon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rotary Connection,
Kas Product,
the Association,
Supertramp,
The Fire Engines,
Jeru the Damaja,
Adolescents,
Motorama,
Anthony Braxton,
Yusef Lateef,
Flipper,
Stiv Bators,
Minnie Riperton,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mo-Dettes,
Q and Not U,
The Real Kids,
Buzzcocks,
Nik Kershaw,
8 Eyed Spy,
Erasure,
Fad Gadget,
Agitation Free,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun City Girls,
The Sonics,
Bob Dylan,
Sparks,
X-Ray Spex,
The Dead C,
UT,
Rakim,
Hoover,
Ken Boothe,
Hashim,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Birthday Party,
Soft Cell,
One Last Wish,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bauhaus,
Yazoo,
The Residents,
Thee Headcoats,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pharoah Sanders,
Circle Jerks,
Monks,
Mad Mike,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Babytalk,
Hasil Adkins,
Robert Hood,
The Zeros,
Qualms,
James White and The Blacks,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.