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 Algeria and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the crunk 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Robert Hood,
The Stooges,
Terry Callier,
John Holt,
Quadrant,
Vladislav Delay,
Andrew Hill,
Outsiders,
the Slits,
Moby Grape,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scott Walker,
Patti Smith,
Aswad,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tomorrow,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Silicon Teens,
Spandau Ballet,
Hoover,
The Motions,
The Modern Lovers,
Quando Quango,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Boz Scaggs,
Ronnie Foster,
Derrick Morgan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Blossom Toes,
The Searchers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Trojans,
The Real Kids,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Standells,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Germs,
Ponytail,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Buckinghams,
ABC,
Bill Near,
China Crisis,
The Gories,
Hasil Adkins,
Deadbeat,
The Associates,
The Black Dice,
Swans,
Moss Icon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Zeros,
Robert Görl,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.