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 Costa Rica and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the grime 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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Scientists,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Bananas,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jawbox,
Hardrive,
Jandek,
Marc Almond,
Minor Threat,
The Kinks,
The Neon Judgement,
B.T. Express,
Pet Shop Boys,
Niagra,
Nick Fraelich,
The Offenders,
Curtis Mayfield,
Amon Düül II,
The Vogues,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantytec,
Bill Near,
The Slackers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Shuggie Otis,
Lightning Bolt,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cal Tjader,
Alton Ellis,
10cc,
Robert Wyatt,
Magazine,
Rufus Thomas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Negative Approach,
The Happenings,
Dead Boys,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wings,
a-ha,
The Evens,
Blancmange,
Mantronix,
Lou Christie,
Steve Hackett,
Tomorrow,
Little Man,
The Motions,
John Holt,
AZ,
Thompson Twins,
The Star Department,
Model 500,
Dawn Penn,
Excepter,
Lucky Dragons,
Stiv Bators,
The Associates,
Country Teasers,
Pere Ubu,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.