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 Thailand and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the crunk 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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Danielle Patucci,
Drexciya,
Half Japanese,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nik Kershaw,
The Knickerbockers,
Anakelly,
Echospace,
Godley & Creme,
New Age Steppers,
John Holt,
The Smiths,
The Stooges,
The Doors,
Cymande,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Oneida,
Talk Talk,
Groovy Waters,
Marine Girls,
The Gories,
Dual Sessions,
Adolescents,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Quadrant,
Lower 48,
Soft Cell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Al Stewart,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Susan Cadogan,
Lungfish,
Barrington Levy,
Jeru the Damaja,
PIL,
Slick Rick,
Make Up,
Carl Craig,
Audionom,
The Fugs,
MC5,
Soulsonic Force,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deakin,
Moby Grape,
Model 500,
Silicon Teens,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eddi Front,
Pylon,
Fatback Band,
K-Klass,
The Mummies,
Thompson Twins,
Girls At Our Best!,
Malaria!,
David Bowie,
Junior Murvin,
Eden Ahbez,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.