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 Mauritania and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Connie Case to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
8 Eyed Spy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Neon Judgement,
Grandmaster Flash,
KRS-One,
Boredoms,
New Order,
Bang On A Can,
Ponytail,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crime,
Mo-Dettes,
Harry Pussy,
the Swans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Niagra,
Scientists,
Cameo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
H. Thieme,
Fugazi,
Kenny Larkin,
Agent Orange,
Swans,
Fatback Band,
JFA,
Babytalk,
Matthew Halsall,
Wasted Youth,
Schoolly D,
Faust,
Yusef Lateef,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sällskapet,
Subhumans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alison Limerick,
Easy Going,
Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Steve Hackett,
Wally Richardson,
Pierre Henry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Suburban Knight,
The Raincoats,
Max Romeo,
Depeche Mode,
The Moody Blues,
Godley & Creme,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobby Womack,
Todd Terry,
Anthony Braxton,
These Immortal Souls,
Neu!,
John Holt,
48th St. Collective,
Siglo XX,
Buzzcocks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.