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 Nauru and from New York.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum 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 Pulsallama to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
The Fugs,
Gabor Szabo,
a-ha,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camberwell Now,
Cal Tjader,
The Evens,
Jandek,
Ponytail,
Gang Gang Dance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Joyce Sims,
Pierre Henry,
Supertramp,
Television Personalities,
Gastr Del Sol,
Popol Vuh,
EPMD,
Toni Rubio,
Circle Jerks,
Archie Shepp,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Urselle,
Roxy Music,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fat Boys,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rosa Yemen,
Eve St. Jones,
B.T. Express,
the Human League,
Procol Harum,
Rufus Thomas,
Leonard Cohen,
H. Thieme,
Groovy Waters,
Thee Headcoats,
Masters at Work,
Sight & Sound,
Vainqueur,
Stiv Bators,
Tubeway Army,
Q65,
Technova,
Swell Maps,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Chris & Cosey,
New Age Steppers,
Lyres,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hasil Adkins,
Can,
The Leaves,
the Soft Cell,
The Gories,
La Düsseldorf,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.