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 Ivory Coast and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Q and Not U to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
The American Breed,
Make Up,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Velvet Underground,
Quadrant,
The Saints,
Soul II Soul,
Skaos,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bill Wells,
Procol Harum,
Radio Birdman,
Babytalk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Smog,
Sam Rivers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Sonics,
Freddie Wadling,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cheater Slicks,
The Trojans,
The New Christs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ken Boothe,
Yazoo,
China Crisis,
The Standells,
Vainqueur,
Franke,
The Wake,
Spandau Ballet,
Roxette,
Ronan,
Joey Negro,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jeff Lynne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Smiths,
Idris Muhammad,
Frankie Knuckles,
Con Funk Shun,
The Blues Magoos,
DNA,
Skriet,
Mission of Burma,
Glenn Branca,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Dirtbombs,
Michelle Simonal,
Boogie Down Productions,
Drive Like Jehu,
Intrusion,
The Toasters,
Livin' Joy,
Niagra,
Dave Gahan,
The Monks,
Black Sheep,
Traffic Nightmare,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.