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 Mexico and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig 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?
Slave,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlback,
Livin' Joy,
Sister Nancy,
Ice-T,
Youth Brigade,
Lindisfarne,
Cal Tjader,
Lyres,
OOIOO,
Jeff Lynne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kas Product,
Johnny Clarke,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Surgeon,
Dual Sessions,
Whodini,
a-ha,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Al Stewart,
Absolute Body Control,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gun Club,
Sonic Youth,
Marine Girls,
The Raincoats,
Bobby Womack,
Hot Snakes,
Niagra,
Fad Gadget,
Parry Music,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cymande,
China Crisis,
Lalann,
Boredoms,
Black Sheep,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crispian St. Peters,
Derrick Morgan,
Cluster,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scion,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gastr Del Sol,
Funky Four + One,
Josef K,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alton Ellis,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Residents,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Organ,
Crispy Ambulance,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Bourne,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.