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 San Marino and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Grey Daturas to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 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?
Derrick Morgan,
Peter & Gordon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Reuben Wilson,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cowsills,
Bauhaus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flash Fearless,
Joe Smooth,
Shoche,
Al Stewart,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Underground Resistance,
Sixth Finger,
The Fire Engines,
Erasure,
Television Personalities,
Ituana,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ludus,
Sonic Youth,
The Gladiators,
Todd Terry,
Kayak,
The Angels of Light,
Aswad,
Man Parrish,
The Fortunes,
Bob Dylan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jeru the Damaja,
New Order,
The Trojans,
The Standells,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nirvana,
La Düsseldorf,
Massinfluence,
The Skatalites,
Simply Red,
Sällskapet,
Aural Exciters,
Procol Harum,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Tim Buckley,
Reagan Youth,
Nico,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Beau Brummels,
Chris & Cosey,
Goldenarms,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dawn Penn,
Ponytail,
Basic Channel,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.