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 Slovakia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Sonics to the dance 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Animal Collective,
Deadbeat,
Piero Umiliani,
Swans,
This Heat,
Maurizio,
Half Japanese,
Sight & Sound,
E-Dancer,
Bobby Byrd,
Nico,
Patti Smith,
kango's stein massive,
China Crisis,
Black Flag,
Kas Product,
The Last Poets,
Scan 7,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Germs,
Duran Duran,
Lalann,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marc Almond,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Slits,
The Smiths,
The Count Five,
the Sonics,
Parry Music,
The Neon Judgement,
Pylon,
The Raincoats,
Public Enemy,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Mojo Men,
Juan Atkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gap Band,
The Wake,
Lindisfarne,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fire Engines,
Bizarre Inc.,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Moleskins,
Kerri Chandler,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sister Nancy,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marine Girls,
The Star Department,
Can,
Althea and Donna,
Y Pants,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.