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 South Africa and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Magazine to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Young Marble Giants,
Susan Cadogan,
Swans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soft Cell,
Nico,
Bluetip,
Motorama,
The New Christs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Moss Icon,
10cc,
Malaria!,
the Soft Cell,
The Five Americans,
Delta 5,
Bill Near,
Erykah Badu,
Bauhaus,
Q and Not U,
Angry Samoans,
Y Pants,
Terrestrial Tones,
Blake Baxter,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Letta Mbulu,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Colin Newman,
Scan 7,
Flipper,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sex Pistols,
Khruangbin,
Niagra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Thompson Twins,
Soft Machine,
48th St. Collective,
Rod Modell,
Sällskapet,
Sarah Menescal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rotary Connection,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sugar Minott,
Tomorrow,
Sonic Youth,
The Electric Prunes,
The Modern Lovers,
Matthew Bourne,
Guru Guru,
Chrome,
Symarip,
Ponytail,
The Stooges,
A Certain Ratio,
The Knickerbockers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Walker Brothers,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.