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 Chile and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare 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 Harmonia to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Joe Smooth,
MDC,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blancmange,
Stiv Bators,
Dead Boys,
Alice Coltrane,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Offenders,
T. Rex,
kango's stein massive,
The Birthday Party,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bluetip,
Sugar Minott,
Tommy Roe,
Gastr Del Sol,
Slave,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers,
The Victims,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Avey Tare,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mo-Dettes,
The Names,
The New Christs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Dead C,
Talk Talk,
Archie Shepp,
Sparks,
Scientists,
The Moleskins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lee Hazlewood,
Johnny Clarke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rapeman,
Fad Gadget,
Andrew Hill,
Rotary Connection,
Isaac Hayes,
Dawn Penn,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fire Engines,
Thee Headcoats,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Colin Newman,
The Red Krayola,
Amon Düül II,
the Association,
Bronski Beat,
The Mojo Men,
The Flesh Eaters,
Roxy Music,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.