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 Hungary and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Schoolly D to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
The Velvet Underground,
the Normal,
Colin Newman,
Agitation Free,
Fear,
LL Cool J,
Mark Hollis,
The Sound,
The Smoke,
Max Romeo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Skriet,
Patti Smith,
The Angels of Light,
John Coltrane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mary Jane Girls,
Glenn Branca,
Duran Duran,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Yazoo,
Radiohead,
Eli Mardock,
Fatback Band,
Depeche Mode,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sonic Youth,
Tres Demented,
The Human League,
Mo-Dettes,
L. Decosne,
Mars,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Black Dice,
Talk Talk,
Girls At Our Best!,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gabor Szabo,
Peter and Kerry,
Dawn Penn,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Slave,
Ituana,
Rod Modell,
Procol Harum,
Joensuu 1685,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Schoolly D,
Marine Girls,
Chris Corsano,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Agent Orange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.