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 Argentina and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Nas to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Monks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Junior Murvin,
MC5,
Agitation Free,
Eric Copeland,
DNA,
Robert Hood,
Camouflage,
JFA,
Donny Hathaway,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Victims,
Q65,
Hasil Adkins,
Outsiders,
The Move,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
cv313,
48th St. Collective,
Patti Smith,
Faust,
Prince Buster,
Camberwell Now,
Au Pairs,
Johnny Clarke,
Mad Mike,
The Sonics,
Monolake,
In Retrospect,
The Offenders,
Gang Starr,
Franke,
Jandek,
The Dave Clark Five,
Angry Samoans,
The Raincoats,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vainqueur,
Altered Images,
Echospace,
Sight & Sound,
Yusef Lateef,
Panda Bear,
Fluxion,
Glambeats Corp.,
X-101,
The Slits,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Zero Boys,
David Axelrod,
Qualms,
Moby Grape,
Grauzone,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Human League,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.