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 Guatemala and from Mumbai.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ludus to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Fatback Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Clear Light,
Sonic Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
Lucky Dragons,
The Pretty Things,
Audionom,
David Bowie,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Warren Ellis,
Glenn Branca,
Essential Logic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kerri Chandler,
Absolute Body Control,
Davy DMX,
Quando Quango,
Mars,
Suicide,
Alison Limerick,
Loose Ends,
Steve Hackett,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
China Crisis,
Rites of Spring,
Eli Mardock,
Bill Wells,
Silicon Teens,
Letta Mbulu,
Susan Cadogan,
Anthony Braxton,
These Immortal Souls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Q65,
Thee Headcoats,
Organ,
Pole,
Joy Division,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Altered Images,
Delta 5,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Neon Judgement,
Johnny Clarke,
Amon Düül II,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Radiohead,
Yaz,
Shoche,
New Order,
Mad Mike,
Ronnie Foster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Roger Hodgson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Piero Umiliani,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rufus Thomas,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.