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 Sri Lanka and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Derrick May to the jazz 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Bauhaus,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rosa Yemen,
Faust,
Kerri Chandler,
June Days,
Warren Ellis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rufus Thomas,
DJ Style,
Lalann,
Flash Fearless,
Dorothy Ashby,
Agitation Free,
Nico,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gong,
A Flock of Seagulls,
World's Most,
Sixth Finger,
L. Decosne,
Heaven 17,
Stereo Dub,
The Black Dice,
Barclay James Harvest,
Section 25,
Judy Mowatt,
Negative Approach,
Sparks,
Jacob Miller,
Desert Stars,
Chris & Cosey,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Birthday Party,
Freddie Wadling,
Peter & Gordon,
Quantec,
Cal Tjader,
Mantronix,
Livin' Joy,
Swell Maps,
The Electric Prunes,
Arthur Verocai,
LL Cool J,
John Cale,
Dead Boys,
Trumans Water,
Roger Hodgson,
The Music Machine,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jeff Mills,
Moby Grape,
Wolf Eyes,
Johnny Clarke,
Young Marble Giants,
Guru Guru,
Fluxion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
New Order,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.