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 Guatemala and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 arpeggiator 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the grunge 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
X-102,
Ten City,
Kerrie Biddell,
Neil Young,
Heaven 17,
Monolake,
Soulsonic Force,
Anthony Braxton,
Wally Richardson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lightning Bolt,
Jawbox,
the Normal,
the Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pussy Galore,
The Dirtbombs,
Crooked Eye,
Roxette,
Ice-T,
Be Bop Deluxe,
John Foxx,
Zapp,
the Bar-Kays,
The Offenders,
Carl Craig,
Donald Byrd,
David McCallum,
T. Rex,
Severed Heads,
Make Up,
Ornette Coleman,
Absolute Body Control,
The Last Poets,
Bobby Byrd,
The Fugs,
Davy DMX,
Lyres,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Misunderstood,
Eric Dolphy,
Section 25,
Aswad,
The Moody Blues,
Malaria!,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Infiniti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wings,
PIL,
Tim Buckley,
Soul II Soul,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jacob Miller,
Slave,
The Red Krayola,
T.S.O.L.,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.