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 Malaysia and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 guitar 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 Peter and Kerry 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
MC5,
The Move,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Easy Going,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Grauzone,
The J.B.'s,
The Searchers,
Althea and Donna,
DJ Style,
Eve St. Jones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eric Dolphy,
Soul II Soul,
Ossler,
Sarah Menescal,
Popol Vuh,
The Blues Magoos,
Bobby Byrd,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Cure,
Babytalk,
Clear Light,
The Fall,
Dawn Penn,
Idris Muhammad,
The New Christs,
Donny Hathaway,
Faust,
Maurizio,
Audionom,
Au Pairs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Angels of Light,
Motorama,
The Mojo Men,
Shuggie Otis,
L. Decosne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Derrick May,
Eddi Front,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Selecter,
T. Rex,
PIL,
Marvin Gaye,
ABC,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mars,
Essential Logic,
Wolf Eyes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kayak,
OOIOO,
Tropical Tobacco,
David McCallum,
Robert Görl,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lakeside,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.