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 Nicaragua and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soulsonic Force,
Half Japanese,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Swans,
Nico,
The Slits,
10cc,
JFA,
Parry Music,
the Sonics,
Moebius,
Alison Limerick,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eric Copeland,
The Motions,
The Invisible,
Severed Heads,
Essential Logic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ultravox,
DNA,
Maleditus Sound,
Ten City,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Althea and Donna,
Cymande,
Brothers Johnson,
The Happenings,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Los Fastidios,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Young Marble Giants,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Victims,
The Busters,
Tommy Roe,
Bobby Byrd,
Joe Finger,
Todd Rundgren,
Warsaw,
Erasure,
Bad Manners,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Music Machine,
Cheater Slicks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Von Mondo,
Excepter,
Motorama,
Tres Demented,
Nirvana,
Crash Course in Science,
Grauzone,
Pantytec,
Toni Rubio,
Public Enemy,
Barrington Levy,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.