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 Senegal and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the marimba 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 Selector Dub Narcotic to the techno 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fat Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Skatalites,
Wally Richardson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flipper,
Country Teasers,
Sam Rivers,
Jeff Mills,
Pole,
The Monks,
Amazonics,
Los Fastidios,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Drive Like Jehu,
Yusef Lateef,
Au Pairs,
Sarah Menescal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Janne Schatter,
cv313,
Lakeside,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jeru the Damaja,
MC5,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
48th St. Collective,
Essential Logic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
OOIOO,
Scan 7,
Whodini,
Organ,
Cybotron,
The Associates,
Shuggie Otis,
Oneida,
Yaz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Talk Talk,
Half Japanese,
The Durutti Column,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Golliwogs,
Public Enemy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Electric Prunes,
Agitation Free,
Tres Demented,
Al Stewart,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.