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 Laos and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 H. Thieme to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Sällskapet,
Hardrive,
Neil Young,
Jawbox,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Drive Like Jehu,
New Order,
the Normal,
Parry Music,
Liliput,
Sonny Sharrock,
Yazoo,
The Golliwogs,
Gichy Dan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Cramps,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Half Japanese,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vainqueur,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tomorrow,
The Leaves,
Scott Walker,
Deadbeat,
Radio Birdman,
The Associates,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Todd Rundgren,
Faust,
The Pretty Things,
Stetsasonic,
Magazine,
Smog,
Au Pairs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joensuu 1685,
Whodini,
Piero Umiliani,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DJ Style,
Country Teasers,
KRS-One,
Lou Reed,
Rotary Connection,
Franke,
Metal Thangz,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Trojans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick Morgan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nick Fraelich,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cheater Slicks,
Oblivians,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.