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 Honduras and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 The Angels of Light to the rock 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Alice Coltrane,
Mars,
The Count Five,
Half Japanese,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
U.S. Maple,
Ponytail,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Seeds,
Vainqueur,
Scrapy,
Maurizio,
Drive Like Jehu,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Victims,
Rekid,
Todd Terry,
Duran Duran,
Black Bananas,
Wings,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
X-102,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
In Retrospect,
Deadbeat,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Josef K,
Girls At Our Best!,
The American Breed,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dual Sessions,
The Gories,
Khruangbin,
Bauhaus,
The Mummies,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kas Product,
MDC,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Chrome,
Laurel Aitken,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
New Age Steppers,
Yaz,
Flamin' Groovies,
T. Rex,
Don Cherry,
Agent Orange,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Godley & Creme,
X-101,
B.T. Express,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Siglo XX,
Jeru the Damaja,
Moss Icon,
Absolute Body Control,
Tomorrow,
Clear Light,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.