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 Slovakia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 spring reverb 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 Supertramp to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Zero Boys,
John Coltrane,
Derrick Morgan,
The Techniques,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Invisible,
D'Angelo,
The Associates,
Black Moon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ultravox,
Ohio Players,
Alton Ellis,
Audionom,
Lou Reed,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Josef K,
Basic Channel,
Juan Atkins,
Kas Product,
The Slits,
Scientists,
Can,
Bang On A Can,
Kaleidoscope,
The Real Kids,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Black Bananas,
The Stooges,
Sarah Menescal,
Yellowson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Stereo Dub,
Camouflage,
Ronan,
Gang Starr,
The Fire Engines,
Dual Sessions,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tom Boy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
This Heat,
Tropical Tobacco,
Electric Prunes,
Pylon,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Lynne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Zeros,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erasure,
cv313,
The Pop Group,
Lou Christie,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.