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 Lithuania and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Al Stewart to the grime 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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
The Fuzztones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tears for Fears,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Cowsills,
Public Enemy,
Anthony Braxton,
Robert Görl,
Slick Rick,
Wolf Eyes,
Lightning Bolt,
Mars,
Rufus Thomas,
Cymande,
Sound Behaviour,
Fugazi,
The Buckinghams,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
MDC,
The Slits,
Negative Approach,
The Martian,
Roy Ayers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tubeway Army,
Funkadelic,
Junior Murvin,
Fad Gadget,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Velvet Underground,
The Move,
Sight & Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Rekid,
The Slackers,
Bill Wells,
Bob Dylan,
Archie Shepp,
Tommy Roe,
Tom Boy,
Fela Kuti,
Visage,
Kurtis Blow,
Joe Smooth,
The Index,
New Age Steppers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
PIL,
T.S.O.L.,
Hashim,
Stiv Bators,
Black Pus,
The Mummies,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cramps,
Pantaleimon,
KRS-One,
Pharoah Sanders,
Vladislav Delay,
Zero Boys,
Ludus,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.