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 Slovenia and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Crime to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
World's Most,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Matthew Halsall,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Barracudas,
Minor Threat,
Gabor Szabo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
48th St. Collective,
Organ,
Procol Harum,
Cameo,
Ralphi Rosario,
kango's stein massive,
The Techniques,
Masters at Work,
Janne Schatter,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Durutti Column,
Grey Daturas,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cramps,
Danielle Patucci,
The Raincoats,
Bluetip,
R.M.O.,
Scott Walker,
Roy Ayers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Howard Jones,
Excepter,
Albert Ayler,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Animal Collective,
Ultimate Spinach,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Christie,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Erasure,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Thompson Twins,
Y Pants,
Moby Grape,
The Electric Prunes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Five Americans,
The Seeds,
Peter and Kerry,
Los Fastidios,
Interpol,
Jimmy McGriff,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lightning Bolt,
Absolute Body Control,
Joe Smooth,
One Last Wish,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.