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 Tonga and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Lou Reed 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 The Gories to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Moleskins,
Moebius,
Bobby Byrd,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Youth Brigade,
The Tremeloes,
Quantec,
The Evens,
Marshall Jefferson,
John Foxx,
Joensuu 1685,
Siglo XX,
Minor Threat,
H. Thieme,
Ultra Naté,
Animal Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Electric Prunes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Motorama,
Derrick Morgan,
Lindisfarne,
Parry Music,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mr. Review,
The Beau Brummels,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neu!,
The Standells,
a-ha,
Girls At Our Best!,
Q and Not U,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cure,
48th St. Collective,
JFA,
Magma,
Mark Hollis,
In Retrospect,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jeff Lynne,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Blackbyrds,
Scion,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Michelle Simonal,
Pet Shop Boys,
Section 25,
Guru Guru,
Crispian St. Peters,
Carl Craig,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Massinfluence,
Juan Atkins,
Chrome,
The Knickerbockers,
Stiv Bators,
Cymande,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.