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 Jordan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Youth Brigade to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jacques Brel,
Con Funk Shun,
Brick,
Flash Fearless,
Darondo,
The Black Dice,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flipper,
Scion,
Yellowson,
Tom Boy,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Human League,
JFA,
a-ha,
Scott Walker,
Girls At Our Best!,
This Heat,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
E-Dancer,
The Wake,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Fania All-Stars,
New Order,
Man Parrish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Anakelly,
The Seeds,
Can,
Susan Cadogan,
Monolake,
Japan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hoover,
Pagans,
Delon & Dalcan,
Youth Brigade,
Massinfluence,
New York Dolls,
Hot Snakes,
The Remains,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Durutti Column,
Scratch Acid,
Wire,
Skarface,
Sam Rivers,
Bill Near,
Echospace,
Grey Daturas,
Zero Boys,
Max Romeo,
The Standells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Trumans Water,
Hasil Adkins,
Eddi Front,
Isaac Hayes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.