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 Philippines and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Matthew Bourne to the funk 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Flipper,
Brand Nubian,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harmonia,
Donny Hathaway,
Bluetip,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rites of Spring,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Blake Baxter,
Panda Bear,
Visage,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nils Olav,
Urselle,
Yellowson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Vainqueur,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Robert Hood,
John Lydon,
Royal Trux,
CMW,
Silicon Teens,
X-Ray Spex,
Fugazi,
Maurizio,
Kevin Saunderson,
Au Pairs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Robert Wyatt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glenn Branca,
Eurythmics,
Pere Ubu,
Erasure,
FM Einheit,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Inner City,
Scan 7,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Deepchord,
ABC,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Fugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lucky Dragons,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Charles Mingus,
Skarface,
Mark Hollis,
Derrick Morgan,
The Happenings,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Music Machine,
T. Rex,
Pagans,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.