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 Serbia and from Edmonton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Arcadia to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
The Human League,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cheater Slicks,
Minny Pops,
Deakin,
Ten City,
The Litter,
Minutemen,
Blossom Toes,
Young Marble Giants,
The Zeros,
Juan Atkins,
The Evens,
Television Personalities,
Alphaville,
Warren Ellis,
The Wake,
Los Fastidios,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Vogues,
Yellowson,
Audionom,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ornette Coleman,
Danielle Patucci,
Idris Muhammad,
Lakeside,
T.S.O.L.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joensuu 1685,
Procol Harum,
The Neon Judgement,
Eve St. Jones,
the Sonics,
La Düsseldorf,
Anthony Braxton,
Whodini,
Bill Wells,
The Pretty Things,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camouflage,
Steve Hackett,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Curtis Mayfield,
June Days,
Glenn Branca,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amon Düül,
The Martian,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Monolake,
Animal Collective,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fugs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.