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 Chad and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 Inner City to the rock 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Todd Terry,
Adolescents,
The Sound,
Gang Gang Dance,
Avey Tare,
Nick Fraelich,
Delta 5,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Audionom,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Martian,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cure,
Boredoms,
Maurizio,
Terry Callier,
Scan 7,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jeff Mills,
Dennis Brown,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fugs,
Gichy Dan,
Piero Umiliani,
Gang of Four,
Eurythmics,
Peter & Gordon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Todd Rundgren,
Aloha Tigers,
Josef K,
Mission of Burma,
Aural Exciters,
The Stooges,
Yazoo,
Jawbox,
Sight & Sound,
Faraquet,
Dual Sessions,
Alison Limerick,
Erykah Badu,
Yellowson,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Minnie Riperton,
Jeff Lynne,
Minutemen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Quando Quango,
the Soft Cell,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nils Olav,
The Fortunes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Aaron Thompson,
The Young Rascals,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Human League,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
the Bar-Kays,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.