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 Venezuela and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb 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 Delta 5 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Crash Course in Science,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Visage,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lou Reed,
The Pop Group,
Amon Düül II,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rapeman,
Index,
The Human League,
Davy DMX,
Cecil Taylor,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Monochrome Set,
John Cale,
Dead Boys,
Negative Approach,
Rosa Yemen,
Marc Almond,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Swans,
New Age Steppers,
Camouflage,
The Vogues,
The Neon Judgement,
Howard Jones,
Fad Gadget,
Reagan Youth,
Flash Fearless,
Bluetip,
Patti Smith,
JFA,
Eli Mardock,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Stetsasonic,
Bill Wells,
Motorama,
Morten Harket,
Michelle Simonal,
Von Mondo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gladiators,
The Sonics,
Al Stewart,
Rufus Thomas,
Organ,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kevin Saunderson,
Severed Heads,
The Real Kids,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.