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 Malaysia and from Accra.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Jerry's Kids to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Smog,
Flamin' Groovies,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Donald Byrd,
Steve Hackett,
Lower 48,
Deadbeat,
Y Pants,
Johnny Osbourne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kurtis Blow,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tomorrow,
John Coltrane,
Hardrive,
Fad Gadget,
Accadde A,
Radio Birdman,
Rod Modell,
Monks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Matthew Bourne,
Interpol,
Andrew Hill,
Skriet,
John Lydon,
Moss Icon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Young Rascals,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
MDC,
Joyce Sims,
Public Image Ltd.,
Public Enemy,
DJ Sneak,
Ronan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Index,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Godley & Creme,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hoover,
Circle Jerks,
Electric Prunes,
Agitation Free,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joensuu 1685,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kenny Larkin,
Toni Rubio,
Young Marble Giants,
Lee Hazlewood,
Drexciya,
48th St. Collective,
Moby Grape,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.