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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar 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 The Toasters to the techno 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 Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Flag,
Qualms,
The Divine Comedy,
Roger Hodgson,
Infiniti,
Patti Smith,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moby Grape,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobby Womack,
Wire,
Average White Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Sun Ra,
Kaleidoscope,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Country Teasers,
Tim Buckley,
Harry Pussy,
Michelle Simonal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Schoolly D,
The Smiths,
The Fall,
Simply Red,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Victims,
Terry Callier,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scrapy,
Procol Harum,
Janne Schatter,
Japan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Roxette,
Nico,
Maurizio,
Supertramp,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Buzzcocks,
Nirvana,
K-Klass,
Minny Pops,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wolf Eyes,
UT,
Tears for Fears,
Girls At Our Best!,
Brick,
Joy Division,
The Black Dice,
Das Ding,
Bobby Sherman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.