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 Yemen and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and London.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Trumans Water to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
The Zeros,
10cc,
Franke,
B.T. Express,
This Heat,
Pussy Galore,
Pet Shop Boys,
Intrusion,
Royal Trux,
The Remains,
DJ Style,
Ornette Coleman,
Siglo XX,
Tim Buckley,
Con Funk Shun,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kerri Chandler,
Erykah Badu,
The Sound,
Black Moon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alphaville,
Chris Corsano,
Bad Manners,
Desert Stars,
Rufus Thomas,
The Pretty Things,
The Detroit Cobras,
Carl Craig,
Liliput,
Das Ding,
Juan Atkins,
Ossler,
Babytalk,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dawn Penn,
The Kinks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radio Birdman,
Joy Division,
Qualms,
The Monks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Fania All-Stars,
Quando Quango,
The J.B.'s,
Panda Bear,
Mr. Review,
Archie Shepp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Music Machine,
The New Christs,
E-Dancer,
T. Rex,
Simply Red,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dark Day,
Lalann,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.