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 Congo and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Deakin to the grime 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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Hasil Adkins,
R.M.O.,
Lebanon Hanover,
Inner City,
Animal Collective,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Bananas,
Unrelated Segments,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Altered Images,
Rufus Thomas,
Byron Stingily,
Lou Reed,
The Velvet Underground,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scan 7,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hashim,
Rosa Yemen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Kinks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Human League,
Moss Icon,
La Düsseldorf,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Todd Rundgren,
The Dave Clark Five,
Qualms,
Main Source,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Moleskins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fire Engines,
Amon Düül,
Smog,
Marc Almond,
Mr. Review,
Sly & The Family Stone,
ABBA,
Brand Nubian,
The Young Rascals,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Pretty Things,
Robert Hood,
Agitation Free,
The Residents,
the Fania All-Stars,
Warren Ellis,
Trumans Water,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Sound,
AZ,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.