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 Albania and from Spokane.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ 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 Arcadia to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
The Fugs,
Wally Richardson,
The Tremeloes,
The Remains,
Susan Cadogan,
Jerry's Kids,
Infiniti,
Los Fastidios,
the Human League,
Darondo,
Silicon Teens,
The Victims,
Easy Going,
Nick Fraelich,
Make Up,
The Smoke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bad Manners,
Cymande,
Bush Tetras,
Roger Hodgson,
Todd Rundgren,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bang On A Can,
The Motions,
Patti Smith,
Ludus,
a-ha,
Sun Ra,
Pagans,
F. McDonald,
Slick Rick,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Franke,
Agent Orange,
The Pretty Things,
Mark Hollis,
Pylon,
The Trojans,
The Standells,
Mo-Dettes,
China Crisis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Agitation Free,
The Fuzztones,
Nirvana,
Symarip,
Hashim,
Faust,
Terry Callier,
The Index,
Maurizio,
Dead Boys,
Bobby Sherman,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Modern Lovers,
Barclay James Harvest,
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