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 Brunei and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lakeside to the electroclash 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
B.T. Express,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
MDC,
Roxette,
Avey Tare,
Cluster,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Shoche,
Moss Icon,
Sugar Minott,
Danielle Patucci,
Amon Düül II,
F. McDonald,
Albert Ayler,
UT,
Organ,
Parry Music,
Tubeway Army,
K-Klass,
Television Personalities,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bang On A Can,
Fluxion,
Echospace,
Joy Division,
Dawn Penn,
Sun City Girls,
Chris Corsano,
Angry Samoans,
ABC,
Spoonie Gee,
Susan Cadogan,
The Music Machine,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Los Fastidios,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sarah Menescal,
Godley & Creme,
Black Sheep,
The Shadows of Knight,
Letta Mbulu,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Soulsonic Force,
Trumans Water,
Brand Nubian,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Y Pants,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scion,
T.S.O.L.,
Eve St. Jones,
Intrusion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stereo Dub,
Bill Wells,
Todd Terry,
Nas,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.