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 Albania and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ 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 marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
48th St. Collective,
Grey Daturas,
The Invisible,
Fear,
Amazonics,
David Axelrod,
Japan,
Matthew Halsall,
Pagans,
the Slits,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Groovy Waters,
The Cure,
Infiniti,
Josef K,
Harmonia,
Panda Bear,
Minnie Riperton,
CMW,
the Germs,
Theoretical Girls,
The United States of America,
The Victims,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Piero Umiliani,
Adolescents,
Minor Threat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Alison Limerick,
Anthony Braxton,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kas Product,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bill Near,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Swell Maps,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun Ra,
Mad Mike,
Nik Kershaw,
Chris & Cosey,
Index,
Joe Finger,
Maleditus Sound,
Outsiders,
Cluster,
Darondo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Whodini,
Donald Byrd,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Techniques,
Sonic Youth,
Nas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Avey Tare,
Judy Mowatt,
The Walker Brothers,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.