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 Cyprus and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Associates to the disco 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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roxette,
Sugar Minott,
David Bowie,
Terry Callier,
Youth Brigade,
The Motions,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Siglo XX,
Marcia Griffiths,
Outsiders,
Nico,
Iggy Pop,
Massinfluence,
John Cale,
Jerry's Kids,
Black Moon,
Erykah Badu,
Arthur Verocai,
Yusef Lateef,
The Zeros,
Joy Division,
L. Decosne,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kool Moe Dee,
Motorama,
MDC,
Dave Gahan,
Symarip,
the Normal,
The Wake,
Pet Shop Boys,
Livin' Joy,
Michelle Simonal,
the Swans,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fugs,
Pole,
Kerri Chandler,
Zero Boys,
Harmonia,
the Human League,
Sonny Sharrock,
Unwound,
Shoche,
Rekid,
Minny Pops,
Robert Hood,
Nick Fraelich,
the Soft Cell,
Jandek,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Metal Thangz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
In Retrospect,
Quantec,
The Happenings,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.