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 Eritrea and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar 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 Pantaleimon to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All 10cc 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 funk 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Audionom,
Absolute Body Control,
The Slits,
Banda Bassotti,
Ice-T,
John Cale,
Panda Bear,
The Birthday Party,
Eric Dolphy,
Public Enemy,
Cybotron,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Model 500,
the Human League,
The Monks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Sound,
Lower 48,
Animal Collective,
One Last Wish,
Delta 5,
The Litter,
Stiv Bators,
Clear Light,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joyce Sims,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Smog,
Matthew Bourne,
The Gap Band,
David McCallum,
Terry Callier,
the Soft Cell,
Young Marble Giants,
Donny Hathaway,
Ituana,
The Kinks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Agent Orange,
The Dead C,
Chris & Cosey,
a-ha,
48th St. Collective,
John Holt,
Neu!,
Tropical Tobacco,
cv313,
OOIOO,
Avey Tare,
The Barracudas,
The Sonics,
Scientists,
Toni Rubio,
Monks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Wally Richardson,
Sixth Finger,
Lungfish,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.