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 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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
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 Mission of Burma to the disco 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Panda Bear,
Magma,
Amon Düül,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Intrusion,
Accadde A,
The Residents,
Drexciya,
The Modern Lovers,
Arcadia,
Essential Logic,
Reagan Youth,
The Misunderstood,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Wake,
Public Enemy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Foxx,
Ornette Coleman,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Neon Judgement,
The Young Rascals,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Big Daddy Kane,
Q and Not U,
Chrome,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Pus,
John Lydon,
The Stooges,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Star Department,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Soft Cell,
The Barracudas,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Newcleus,
The Moleskins,
Matthew Halsall,
Dual Sessions,
Al Stewart,
MC5,
Joey Negro,
The Angels of Light,
The Sonics,
Bizarre Inc.,
Amon Düül II,
Danielle Patucci,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sex Pistols,
Albert Ayler,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grey Daturas,
Kevin Saunderson,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.