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 Togo and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare 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 Barry Ungar to the techno 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
John Coltrane,
Animal Collective,
The Velvet Underground,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeff Lynne,
Hashim,
Rapeman,
Funky Four + One,
Duran Duran,
The Wake,
Derrick Morgan,
Sister Nancy,
Roxy Music,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Matthew Bourne,
The Five Americans,
Echospace,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gang of Four,
Essential Logic,
World's Most,
Kaleidoscope,
Excepter,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Soulsonic Force,
Aaron Thompson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marc Almond,
Guru Guru,
The Sisters of Mercy,
F. McDonald,
Skaos,
Gang Gang Dance,
Television,
Royal Trux,
K-Klass,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Scion,
Jawbox,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Hood,
Byron Stingily,
Ohio Players,
Q65,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Little Man,
Sarah Menescal,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
CMW,
Jerry Gold Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
R.M.O.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Qualms,
Gang Green,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.