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 Belgium and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Ossler to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Wally Richardson,
Joyce Sims,
Shoche,
Trumans Water,
Surgeon,
Throbbing Gristle,
Symarip,
Second Layer,
The Walker Brothers,
Carl Craig,
Jandek,
Sparks,
The Sonics,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eric Copeland,
Yazoo,
Zapp,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aswad,
Guru Guru,
E-Dancer,
Lou Reed,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Echospace,
Roy Ayers,
The J.B.'s,
Susan Cadogan,
Monolake,
The Gun Club,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Groovy Waters,
The Human League,
Drive Like Jehu,
Steve Hackett,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bang On A Can,
The Stooges,
Colin Newman,
Terry Callier,
Quando Quango,
Bush Tetras,
Barbara Tucker,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scrapy,
Adolescents,
Crash Course in Science,
Matthew Halsall,
Public Image Ltd.,
H. Thieme,
Blancmange,
Ten City,
The Motions,
Archie Shepp,
Lalann,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Christie,
Moebius,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.