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 Tonga and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare 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 The Happenings to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tim Buckley,
Hardrive,
Kas Product,
Scientists,
Nation of Ulysses,
Popol Vuh,
Aaron Thompson,
The Seeds,
Moss Icon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Absolute Body Control,
ABBA,
The Dirtbombs,
Y Pants,
Scan 7,
Agent Orange,
Dave Gahan,
Dead Boys,
Brothers Johnson,
The Moody Blues,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sight & Sound,
Roxy Music,
Grandmaster Flash,
Juan Atkins,
Altered Images,
Porter Ricks,
a-ha,
Rod Modell,
Excepter,
Minutemen,
Theoretical Girls,
Intrusion,
Scrapy,
This Heat,
Peter and Kerry,
the Sonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dawn Penn,
Barclay James Harvest,
Don Cherry,
Ken Boothe,
Can,
Sun Ra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Iggy Pop,
Terry Callier,
Morten Harket,
John Foxx,
Drive Like Jehu,
Circle Jerks,
Von Mondo,
The Pretty Things,
Unwound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sugar Minott,
Half Japanese,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wasted Youth,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.