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 Malta and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar 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 Kerri Chandler to the rock 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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Reagan Youth,
Anakelly,
The Misunderstood,
Toni Rubio,
Bootsy Collins,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Trumans Water,
New Age Steppers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wings,
Lucky Dragons,
Make Up,
Drive Like Jehu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Don Cherry,
Gong,
The Motions,
Grandmaster Flash,
Man Parrish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Judy Mowatt,
Kaleidoscope,
the Slits,
Mandrill,
Quadrant,
Symarip,
The Buckinghams,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joy Division,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dual Sessions,
Hardrive,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Flag,
Parry Music,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Heaven 17,
Bill Wells,
Crime,
Electric Prunes,
ABC,
Jeff Lynne,
Amazonics,
Moby Grape,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Danielle Patucci,
LL Cool J,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Chris Corsano,
DJ Sneak,
Lebanon Hanover,
Loose Ends,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Robert Görl,
The Seeds,
The Litter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.