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 Cuba and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Skaos to the funk 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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Magma,
AZ,
Schoolly D,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Public Enemy,
Saccharine Trust,
Inner City,
Bronski Beat,
The Invisible,
Althea and Donna,
Lou Christie,
Warsaw,
Funkadelic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Grey Daturas,
The Young Rascals,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Albert Ayler,
Sonic Youth,
Erasure,
Jacques Brel,
Sonny Sharrock,
Stetsasonic,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sarah Menescal,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cluster,
Smog,
Nirvana,
Fad Gadget,
Can,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Iggy Pop,
Alphaville,
Judy Mowatt,
Gang Green,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Goldenarms,
The Cramps,
Lightning Bolt,
Nils Olav,
Half Japanese,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Infiniti,
Aswad,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Slits,
The Gories,
Symarip,
L. Decosne,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.