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 Libya and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Rod Modell to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
Absolute Body Control,
James White and The Blacks,
Radiohead,
Von Mondo,
Aloha Tigers,
Dennis Brown,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Bar-Kays,
Minny Pops,
Electric Prunes,
The Index,
Blossom Toes,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharoah Sanders,
Patti Smith,
Schoolly D,
Moby Grape,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nico,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dark Day,
Robert Görl,
Amon Düül,
Piero Umiliani,
Intrusion,
Tomorrow,
Curtis Mayfield,
Danielle Patucci,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Divine Comedy,
Eurythmics,
Nick Fraelich,
D'Angelo,
Hasil Adkins,
Johnny Clarke,
Graham Central Station,
Au Pairs,
Half Japanese,
Joy Division,
Yazoo,
The Flesh Eaters,
David McCallum,
Camouflage,
The Residents,
Glenn Branca,
Suicide,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pere Ubu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lakeside,
Goldenarms,
The Fire Engines,
Terry Callier,
Jesper Dahlback,
Oblivians,
a-ha,
Wire,
the Sonics,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.