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 Madagascar and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Calgary and Columbus.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gregory Isaacs to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Massinfluence,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
B.T. Express,
Bobby Byrd,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Infiniti,
Animal Collective,
Kayak,
Fatback Band,
Ultravox,
In Retrospect,
Little Man,
Pussy Galore,
Darondo,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Black Dice,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oblivians,
Q and Not U,
Camberwell Now,
Kerri Chandler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
R.M.O.,
Ronnie Foster,
Maleditus Sound,
Depeche Mode,
K-Klass,
The Invisible,
Von Mondo,
The Stooges,
Piero Umiliani,
Johnny Clarke,
Lebanon Hanover,
Los Fastidios,
Malaria!,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cal Tjader,
Gang Green,
H. Thieme,
Nick Fraelich,
Symarip,
Minutemen,
Y Pants,
The Raincoats,
Donny Hathaway,
the Fania All-Stars,
Severed Heads,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Finger,
Warsaw,
Babytalk,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sam Rivers,
Can,
Rapeman,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roxy Music,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.