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 Seychelles and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare 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 Toasters to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Byron Stingily,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Symarip,
Underground Resistance,
Lalo Schifrin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rosa Yemen,
Hot Snakes,
Altered Images,
Matthew Bourne,
Iggy Pop,
Hasil Adkins,
Groovy Waters,
Young Marble Giants,
Au Pairs,
B.T. Express,
Talk Talk,
Faust,
Adolescents,
Cal Tjader,
Deepchord,
The Standells,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Danielle Patucci,
H. Thieme,
Barclay James Harvest,
Angry Samoans,
Isaac Hayes,
Steve Hackett,
Deakin,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Vladislav Delay,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Audionom,
Lalann,
Charles Mingus,
Metal Thangz,
Henry Cow,
Marc Almond,
The Red Krayola,
Pantaleimon,
Alice Coltrane,
John Holt,
Donny Hathaway,
Barbara Tucker,
Panda Bear,
Alton Ellis,
Nik Kershaw,
Bad Manners,
Robert Görl,
Harry Pussy,
Urselle,
The Blackbyrds,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Techniques,
UT,
Shoche,
Cameo,
The Raincoats,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.