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 Switzerland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Leaves to the dance 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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer 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 spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Mars,
Ten City,
Susan Cadogan,
Crispy Ambulance,
a-ha,
Heaven 17,
FM Einheit,
Shuggie Otis,
Byron Stingily,
Johnny Clarke,
The Wake,
Man Parrish,
Frankie Knuckles,
Absolute Body Control,
Schoolly D,
John Lydon,
Danielle Patucci,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Human League,
the Sonics,
Curtis Mayfield,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Neil Young,
The Knickerbockers,
Depeche Mode,
The Durutti Column,
Matthew Bourne,
Arthur Verocai,
The Gories,
Darondo,
Piero Umiliani,
Maleditus Sound,
Motorama,
The Index,
John Coltrane,
The Remains,
Altered Images,
Erykah Badu,
D'Angelo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hardrive,
Steve Hackett,
The New Christs,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fluxion,
Dark Day,
Sällskapet,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ohio Players,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Music Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
David Bowie,
Lightning Bolt,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Donald Byrd,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.