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 Ecuador and from Lille.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro 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 Danielle Patucci to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
The Monks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cure,
David McCallum,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Monochrome Set,
Sister Nancy,
X-101,
Fat Boys,
Dead Boys,
The Five Americans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Anthony Braxton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marvin Gaye,
John Lydon,
Soft Machine,
Gong,
OOIOO,
Sun Ra,
Nils Olav,
Cymande,
Glenn Branca,
Brand Nubian,
The Vogues,
Andrew Hill,
Rapeman,
Joe Finger,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Drexciya,
The Knickerbockers,
The Blues Magoos,
The Litter,
The J.B.'s,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Youth Brigade,
Tim Buckley,
Unwound,
The Buckinghams,
Negative Approach,
Niagra,
Parry Music,
Stetsasonic,
Cameo,
K-Klass,
Lower 48,
Average White Band,
10cc,
Panda Bear,
Howard Jones,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
H. Thieme,
The Grass Roots,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ten City,
Nick Fraelich,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Chris Corsano,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.