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 Montenegro and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Christie to the dance 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Bobby Sherman,
Absolute Body Control,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Throbbing Gristle,
Grey Daturas,
Jeff Mills,
the Association,
Mandrill,
Eric Dolphy,
Peter & Gordon,
Aural Exciters,
AZ,
Barrington Levy,
48th St. Collective,
This Heat,
Ossler,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kayak,
Terry Callier,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Oneida,
Malaria!,
Jacob Miller,
The Doors,
Outsiders,
Crash Course in Science,
Icehouse,
Leonard Cohen,
Slave,
Ultravox,
Erasure,
Janne Schatter,
Cymande,
MDC,
Half Japanese,
Q65,
Television,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Zeros,
The Vogues,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bronski Beat,
Davy DMX,
Guru Guru,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lower 48,
Mary Jane Girls,
Darondo,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Mummies,
Can,
The Real Kids,
The Durutti Column,
DNA,
The Young Rascals,
New Order,
Jandek,
Man Parrish,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.