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 Djibouti and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro 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 Eddi Front 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flash Fearless,
Marc Almond,
Albert Ayler,
The Motions,
Max Romeo,
E-Dancer,
Lou Christie,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eric Dolphy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eden Ahbez,
Unwound,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The New Christs,
Ohio Players,
Shoche,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Flag,
The Slits,
Lucky Dragons,
Chris Corsano,
the Association,
Excepter,
Section 25,
Electric Prunes,
Chrome,
AZ,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Red Krayola,
Arthur Verocai,
JFA,
Gang Green,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rufus Thomas,
The Real Kids,
Glambeats Corp.,
Peter and Kerry,
Man Parrish,
Sarah Menescal,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quadrant,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Radiohead,
Dead Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joy Division,
Chris & Cosey,
a-ha,
Icehouse,
Jeff Mills,
Oneida,
Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick Morgan,
Althea and Donna,
The Busters,
Gabor Szabo,
CMW,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.