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 Solomon Islands and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Flipper to the crunk 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Unrelated Segments,
Sällskapet,
Zero Boys,
Bill Near,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Index,
Cybotron,
Bill Wells,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dennis Brown,
The Moleskins,
the Swans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Malaria!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rotary Connection,
Audionom,
Andrew Hill,
Steve Hackett,
Janne Schatter,
Joe Finger,
Index,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ludus,
The Gories,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Barry Ungar,
The Techniques,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Josef K,
Brass Construction,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Piero Umiliani,
Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Icehouse,
Altered Images,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mission of Burma,
Tommy Roe,
Pantaleimon,
Toni Rubio,
Technova,
Minny Pops,
Fear,
Roger Hodgson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Germs,
Prince Buster,
Graham Central Station,
Stereo Dub,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Unwound,
The Monochrome Set,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.