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 New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 T.S.O.L. to the funk 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
The Zeros,
Steve Hackett,
The Gun Club,
Harpers Bizarre,
Peter and Kerry,
Joey Negro,
Malaria!,
The Invisible,
CMW,
Al Stewart,
Stiv Bators,
Ponytail,
The Monks,
Nas,
Eddi Front,
Organ,
Model 500,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Victims,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sarah Menescal,
Iggy Pop,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kaleidoscope,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mummies,
Zero Boys,
The Gap Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Yaz,
Pulsallama,
Theoretical Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Morten Harket,
Gang Starr,
Wolf Eyes,
Dual Sessions,
Byron Stingily,
The Techniques,
L. Decosne,
Niagra,
Piero Umiliani,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cameo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Archie Shepp,
Yazoo,
Intrusion,
Johnny Clarke,
Funky Four + One,
Dennis Brown,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.