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 Malaysia 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
The Skatalites,
Suburban Knight,
Idris Muhammad,
The Doors,
The Invisible,
The Motions,
the Slits,
Goldenarms,
Pantaleimon,
Janne Schatter,
Television,
the Soft Cell,
Section 25,
Television Personalities,
Ice-T,
Sister Nancy,
Harmonia,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joy Division,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
Brothers Johnson,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Golliwogs,
La Düsseldorf,
Sam Rivers,
Soft Machine,
Dual Sessions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Pus,
Agent Orange,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
World's Most,
Jimmy McGriff,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Reed,
Yazoo,
Rekid,
The Misunderstood,
The Mummies,
Tim Buckley,
The Seeds,
Danielle Patucci,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Boz Scaggs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
James White and The Blacks,
The Flesh Eaters,
Visage,
Hashim,
Rotary Connection,
Jawbox,
The Red Krayola,
The Blues Magoos,
Bronski Beat,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Germs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.