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 Brunei and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Neu! to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Marvin Gaye,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tim Buckley,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T. Rex,
the Human League,
One Last Wish,
The Techniques,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Visage,
Quantec,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marine Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Second Layer,
Crooked Eye,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Arcadia,
the Bar-Kays,
10cc,
John Coltrane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bronski Beat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soul II Soul,
Circle Jerks,
Terry Callier,
Little Man,
the Normal,
Sparks,
Lower 48,
Danielle Patucci,
Bob Dylan,
Andrew Hill,
David Bowie,
Alison Limerick,
The Dave Clark Five,
Technova,
Ultravox,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobby Sherman,
Rotary Connection,
Tommy Roe,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Electric Prunes,
Bobby Womack,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amon Düül,
Mr. Review,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lungfish,
Suicide,
Nation of Ulysses,
Severed Heads,
Blake Baxter,
Blancmange,
John Lydon,
Faust,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.