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 South Sudan and from London.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Joe Finger to the techno 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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin 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 snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Country Teasers,
The Raincoats,
Audionom,
Lindisfarne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Buzzcocks,
Lakeside,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Inner City,
kango's stein massive,
The Mojo Men,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Swans,
The Fire Engines,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bush Tetras,
Oblivians,
Cluster,
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The United States of America,
Pagans,
Ten City,
Unrelated Segments,
Mandrill,
Lou Reed,
Charles Mingus,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sandy B,
Susan Cadogan,
The American Breed,
Danielle Patucci,
Zero Boys,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pussy Galore,
Theoretical Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Todd Terry,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Alison Limerick,
Deakin,
The Wake,
The Neon Judgement,
Radiopuhelimet,
X-101,
Roxette,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fugs,
Roxy Music,
Qualms,
the Normal,
Robert Hood,
CMW,
Flash Fearless,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bob Dylan,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.