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 Denmark and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare 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 Lou Reed to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dirtbombs. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Iggy Pop,
Boredoms,
Scratch Acid,
Little Man,
Arcadia,
Spandau Ballet,
Alice Coltrane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Happenings,
Echospace,
The Searchers,
Talk Talk,
Terry Callier,
Negative Approach,
Quando Quango,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Blackbyrds,
Public Enemy,
Andrew Hill,
Siglo XX,
Ten City,
Joensuu 1685,
Soul II Soul,
Faust,
Von Mondo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lee Hazlewood,
Magma,
The Electric Prunes,
Susan Cadogan,
The Monochrome Set,
Jerry Gold Smith,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ice-T,
Cal Tjader,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mission of Burma,
The Walker Brothers,
Skaos,
The Blues Magoos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hashim,
Stiv Bators,
Angry Samoans,
Glenn Branca,
Agent Orange,
The Velvet Underground,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Circle Jerks,
The Cowsills,
Suicide,
Rekid,
Funkadelic,
Mr. Review,
U.S. Maple,
La Düsseldorf,
Silicon Teens,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Drive Like Jehu,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.