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 South Sudan and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hashim to the electroclash 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Radiohead,
Mandrill,
the Association,
Porter Ricks,
Albert Ayler,
Ultravox,
Kas Product,
Visage,
Robert Görl,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker,
Moby Grape,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Blues Magoos,
Y Pants,
Minny Pops,
The Smoke,
the Slits,
Flipper,
U.S. Maple,
Hardrive,
Anthony Braxton,
Lindisfarne,
Rod Modell,
Accadde A,
OOIOO,
New York Dolls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Erasure,
Slick Rick,
Livin' Joy,
Roy Ayers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jacques Brel,
Bad Manners,
The Gun Club,
Joyce Sims,
Magazine,
Shuggie Otis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Normal,
Mr. Review,
Bobby Byrd,
Make Up,
Derrick May,
Funky Four + One,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Goldenarms,
Mo-Dettes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Busters,
Audionom,
Cheater Slicks,
Marc Almond,
Slave,
Essential Logic,
Yaz,
Gabor Szabo,
Minor Threat,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.