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 Korea North and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bremen.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the rock 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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Massinfluence,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
Stiv Bators,
The Toasters,
Echospace,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bob Dylan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nik Kershaw,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
La Düsseldorf,
Dennis Brown,
Inner City,
Bluetip,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fire Engines,
The Zeros,
Cheater Slicks,
Negative Approach,
Sällskapet,
Amon Düül II,
Pole,
The Golliwogs,
Eric Copeland,
The Five Americans,
Barrington Levy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Velvet Underground,
The Monks,
Rotary Connection,
Sam Rivers,
Camberwell Now,
Main Source,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Human League,
Connie Case,
Quadrant,
Pagans,
Arthur Verocai,
Judy Mowatt,
The American Breed,
These Immortal Souls,
John Lydon,
Arcadia,
Scott Walker,
Camouflage,
The Modern Lovers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mummies,
Wally Richardson,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gladiators,
Urselle,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grauzone,
The Fall,
a-ha,
Derrick May,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.