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 Iraq and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord 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 Faraquet to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes 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?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Foxx,
Kerri Chandler,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
MDC,
Stetsasonic,
Cecil Taylor,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kas Product,
EPMD,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Arcadia,
Funkadelic,
Sonic Youth,
Dave Gahan,
New Age Steppers,
Brass Construction,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Standells,
Royal Trux,
Unrelated Segments,
Cybotron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Talk Talk,
Sound Behaviour,
Soul II Soul,
Country Teasers,
The Skatalites,
The Misunderstood,
Pharoah Sanders,
In Retrospect,
Maleditus Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Moebius,
New Order,
Joy Division,
Television,
Smog,
Howard Jones,
Stiv Bators,
Massinfluence,
Jimmy McGriff,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nico,
John Coltrane,
Eric Dolphy,
Animal Collective,
Roxette,
Pantaleimon,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Los Fastidios,
The Mummies,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pantytec,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.