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 Serbia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the rock 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe 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 rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joensuu 1685,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Main Source,
Excepter,
Crash Course in Science,
Ossler,
Davy DMX,
Slave,
Basic Channel,
Harmonia,
Faraquet,
MDC,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Slits,
Lower 48,
Livin' Joy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alison Limerick,
Erykah Badu,
Dennis Brown,
The Dirtbombs,
The Searchers,
Section 25,
the Sonics,
Flash Fearless,
Procol Harum,
Bauhaus,
Aloha Tigers,
Fluxion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tomorrow,
Skarface,
Bang On A Can,
Parry Music,
The Gun Club,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Smog,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
T.S.O.L.,
Gang Green,
Animal Collective,
Chris & Cosey,
H. Thieme,
Lou Reed,
Scan 7,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Derrick Morgan,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Bar-Kays,
FM Einheit,
Motorama,
Barry Ungar,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
K-Klass,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.