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 Turkey and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet 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 Iggy Pop to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Visage,
Mission of Burma,
Dual Sessions,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Divine Comedy,
The Cowsills,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun City Girls,
Essential Logic,
Fad Gadget,
Leonard Cohen,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ronan,
Mantronix,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
In Retrospect,
The Dirtbombs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Accadde A,
The Seeds,
Slave,
K-Klass,
Delta 5,
Jeff Lynne,
Au Pairs,
Second Layer,
Pantaleimon,
Donny Hathaway,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
Boogie Down Productions,
Agitation Free,
New Order,
Eric B and Rakim,
Trumans Water,
Fugazi,
JFA,
Eric Copeland,
Kas Product,
Cameo,
Albert Ayler,
The Mummies,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Association,
Sam Rivers,
Jandek,
David Axelrod,
Buzzcocks,
Dawn Penn,
Soulsonic Force,
Grauzone,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Basic Channel,
Rekid,
Pole,
Bush Tetras,
Lou Reed,
F. McDonald,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nils Olav,
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.