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 Estonia and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Organ,
Lungfish,
Magma,
Oblivians,
B.T. Express,
PIL,
Terrestrial Tones,
Maleditus Sound,
Marvin Gaye,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare,
Sparks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ten City,
Delta 5,
Junior Murvin,
Outsiders,
Stetsasonic,
Erasure,
Maurizio,
John Cale,
Wally Richardson,
Fela Kuti,
Basic Channel,
The Count Five,
Steve Hackett,
Porter Ricks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rosa Yemen,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Womack,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mo-Dettes,
The Gap Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barclay James Harvest,
Cymande,
The Shadows of Knight,
Slick Rick,
Tomorrow,
The Wake,
Gang Gang Dance,
Chris Corsano,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Don Cherry,
Metal Thangz,
Tubeway Army,
Animal Collective,
Brass Construction,
Skarface,
The Residents,
The Moody Blues,
Morten Harket,
Lebanon Hanover,
Monks,
Joyce Sims,
Visage,
X-101,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Colin Newman,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.