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 South Africa and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Pop Group to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Surgeon,
Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Dave Gahan,
Agitation Free,
Nick Fraelich,
Toni Rubio,
Bootsy Collins,
The Detroit Cobras,
Angry Samoans,
Eric Copeland,
Maurizio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Count Five,
Drive Like Jehu,
DJ Sneak,
Darondo,
Neu!,
Kaleidoscope,
Ultimate Spinach,
Arcadia,
Eve St. Jones,
Infiniti,
Moebius,
The Fall,
U.S. Maple,
Black Flag,
Kenny Larkin,
E-Dancer,
Mark Hollis,
Byron Stingily,
The Modern Lovers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Black Bananas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rosa Yemen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cramps,
Ituana,
D'Angelo,
Flamin' Groovies,
Unwound,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Youth Brigade,
Mandrill,
Dark Day,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bob Dylan,
Boz Scaggs,
Rod Modell,
X-Ray Spex,
Jandek,
Grey Daturas,
Pantaleimon,
Erasure,
Duran Duran,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pole,
Electric Prunes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sällskapet,
Alice Coltrane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.