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 Uruguay and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 The Monochrome Set to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every London Community Gospel Choir record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb 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 synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tommy Roe,
EPMD,
Derrick May,
The Slackers,
Ohio Players,
Excepter,
Kurtis Blow,
Janne Schatter,
The New Christs,
Skaos,
Khruangbin,
Half Japanese,
Sixth Finger,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Spoonie Gee,
Rekid,
The Dave Clark Five,
Reagan Youth,
Bluetip,
The Kinks,
Youth Brigade,
Oneida,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Idris Muhammad,
Icehouse,
Circle Jerks,
Swans,
Marine Girls,
AZ,
DJ Style,
China Crisis,
Derrick Morgan,
X-Ray Spex,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Desert Stars,
Todd Rundgren,
Mad Mike,
Ten City,
Easy Going,
The Velvet Underground,
R.M.O.,
Von Mondo,
Todd Terry,
The Vogues,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pet Shop Boys,
Masters at Work,
Bad Manners,
The Walker Brothers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Babytalk,
Aaron Thompson,
The Offenders,
Soul II Soul,
Delta 5,
Monks,
The Black Dice,
Magazine,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.