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 Argentina and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sonics to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Yusef Lateef,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Negative Approach,
The Motions,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Misunderstood,
the Germs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tres Demented,
Spoonie Gee,
Fela Kuti,
Matthew Halsall,
Josef K,
Fad Gadget,
Andrew Hill,
Camberwell Now,
Television,
The Dirtbombs,
Second Layer,
The Standells,
Rites of Spring,
Nils Olav,
Lower 48,
Be Bop Deluxe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lee Hazlewood,
David Axelrod,
The Walker Brothers,
Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Laurel Aitken,
Bootsy Collins,
the Association,
Rod Modell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
LL Cool J,
Schoolly D,
Chris & Cosey,
DJ Style,
Bronski Beat,
Cameo,
Quantec,
The Cowsills,
the Swans,
The Cure,
The Mighty Diamonds,
MDC,
Quando Quango,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Busters,
The Music Machine,
Average White Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tubeway Army,
MC5,
Pussy Galore,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.