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 Ireland and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scratch Acid to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Motions,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Flipper,
The Young Rascals,
Hardrive,
Faraquet,
Magma,
EPMD,
The Fall,
Moby Grape,
Lyres,
Minor Threat,
Scott Walker,
Slick Rick,
The Gap Band,
Toni Rubio,
The Angels of Light,
Flamin' Groovies,
Suburban Knight,
This Heat,
the Human League,
Sun Ra,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Al Stewart,
Blake Baxter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shuggie Otis,
The Residents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Junior Murvin,
Rapeman,
Donny Hathaway,
Sight & Sound,
The Toasters,
Judy Mowatt,
The Wake,
Eric Dolphy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Durutti Column,
Sonic Youth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Litter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Saccharine Trust,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gabor Szabo,
Marvin Gaye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marcia Griffiths,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Saints,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pierre Henry,
Bush Tetras,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Blackbyrds,
Can,
The Moleskins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.