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 Nauru and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cluster,
Interpol,
Animal Collective,
Fat Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
Sparks,
June of 44,
Bush Tetras,
The Associates,
In Retrospect,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Prince Buster,
Jeff Lynne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bob Dylan,
UT,
Delta 5,
Icehouse,
New York Dolls,
The Red Krayola,
The Slackers,
Lou Reed,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Selecter,
Metal Thangz,
Aswad,
Deepchord,
Eve St. Jones,
The Sonics,
Amon Düül,
Easy Going,
Second Layer,
Mandrill,
KRS-One,
Glenn Branca,
Marshall Jefferson,
Silicon Teens,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Subhumans,
DJ Sneak,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Sherman,
The Offenders,
Jeff Mills,
Loose Ends,
The New Christs,
Fugazi,
T.S.O.L.,
Donald Byrd,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kaleidoscope,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kurtis Blow,
Marine Girls,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
K-Klass,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.