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 Uganda and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tim Buckley to the punk 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Zapp,
OOIOO,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Iggy Pop,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hashim,
The Flesh Eaters,
Stereo Dub,
Wire,
Tears for Fears,
The Techniques,
Dave Gahan,
Camouflage,
Scion,
The Buckinghams,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Los Fastidios,
Minutemen,
Robert Görl,
Section 25,
Gong,
Juan Atkins,
B.T. Express,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Happenings,
Easy Going,
Ronnie Foster,
10cc,
The J.B.'s,
AZ,
ABC,
Hasil Adkins,
Peter and Kerry,
Ultimate Spinach,
This Heat,
Fad Gadget,
Minny Pops,
Soft Machine,
China Crisis,
Eric B and Rakim,
Circle Jerks,
Joyce Sims,
Roxette,
EPMD,
Blossom Toes,
Wings,
Television,
The Move,
X-101,
The Last Poets,
The Raincoats,
Nirvana,
Throbbing Gristle,
Half Japanese,
Moebius,
Country Teasers,
D'Angelo,
Au Pairs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.