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 Georgia and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manchester.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Index to the electroclash 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 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 Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thee Headcoats,
the Soft Cell,
Ohio Players,
X-102,
Arcadia,
Wally Richardson,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nirvana,
Swans,
Drexciya,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Liliput,
Spoonie Gee,
Aswad,
Parry Music,
Nico,
Avey Tare,
Johnny Clarke,
Average White Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Banda Bassotti,
La Düsseldorf,
Anthony Braxton,
Moss Icon,
Sex Pistols,
The Music Machine,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Amon Düül,
The New Christs,
OOIOO,
The Zeros,
Heaven 17,
Metal Thangz,
Stetsasonic,
The Smoke,
Fluxion,
DJ Style,
Nick Fraelich,
Marvin Gaye,
Schoolly D,
Nik Kershaw,
Can,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
JFA,
Adolescents,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barbara Tucker,
Black Flag,
Model 500,
Howard Jones,
Oneida,
Malaria!,
Zero Boys,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
X-101,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.