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 Bulgaria and from Manchester.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Godley & Creme to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Matthew Halsall,
Sarah Menescal,
Bush Tetras,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lungfish,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
John Lydon,
Oneida,
The Cure,
Johnny Clarke,
Underground Resistance,
Sister Nancy,
The Knickerbockers,
The Modern Lovers,
Soulsonic Force,
The Pop Group,
the Soft Cell,
Jandek,
Alice Coltrane,
Tim Buckley,
Outsiders,
Eli Mardock,
Q and Not U,
The Martian,
The Fall,
Alphaville,
Gang of Four,
Scratch Acid,
Bob Dylan,
Peter & Gordon,
Panda Bear,
Crispian St. Peters,
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Icehouse,
Mo-Dettes,
Ponytail,
Trumans Water,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dual Sessions,
Ituana,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Techniques,
Adolescents,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jesper Dahlback,
Warren Ellis,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wire,
The Durutti Column,
T.S.O.L.,
Shuggie Otis,
The United States of America,
Roxette,
Altered Images,
The Happenings,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.