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 Taiwan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tommy Roe,
The Happenings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jerry's Kids,
Marmalade,
H. Thieme,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultra Naté,
Connie Case,
Depeche Mode,
Pere Ubu,
The Cure,
The Saints,
Essential Logic,
Soulsonic Force,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Michelle Simonal,
Interpol,
Minny Pops,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Panda Bear,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grauzone,
Funkadelic,
Yusef Lateef,
Sugar Minott,
the Slits,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yellowson,
Technova,
The Zeros,
The Sonics,
Black Pus,
Donny Hathaway,
The Techniques,
Camberwell Now,
The Tremeloes,
Lakeside,
MDC,
The Black Dice,
The Names,
Radiopuhelimet,
Slave,
Niagra,
Deepchord,
Chrome,
CMW,
Soft Cell,
Skaos,
Outsiders,
Livin' Joy,
Aloha Tigers,
Hasil Adkins,
Graham Central Station,
David Axelrod,
Joe Finger,
Masters at Work,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marine Girls,
Ken Boothe,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Index,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.