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 Ivory Coast and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Spoonie Gee to the punk 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Metal Thangz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rekid,
Sällskapet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jerry's Kids,
The Divine Comedy,
Bill Wells,
the Fania All-Stars,
Neil Young,
Ituana,
Deepchord,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Martian,
The Doobie Brothers,
Suburban Knight,
kango's stein massive,
Ohio Players,
Minnie Riperton,
Fad Gadget,
Interpol,
Ten City,
Minny Pops,
Procol Harum,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sight & Sound,
Cymande,
Godley & Creme,
The Gladiators,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Sound,
Stetsasonic,
The Buckinghams,
Gastr Del Sol,
La Düsseldorf,
AZ,
Supertramp,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Moss Icon,
Sun City Girls,
Pussy Galore,
Joyce Sims,
The Black Dice,
Harmonia,
Prince Buster,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Stiv Bators,
Crispian St. Peters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marvin Gaye,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mars,
Nils Olav,
China Crisis,
The Birthday Party,
Gichy Dan,
Gang Gang Dance,
PIL,
the Normal,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.