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 Zimbabwe and from Bologna.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Association to the crunk 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Quando Quango,
Gregory Isaacs,
Don Cherry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Make Up,
The Gun Club,
The Dave Clark Five,
8 Eyed Spy,
Alphaville,
Second Layer,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Electric Prunes,
the Human League,
The Fortunes,
The Cramps,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Magma,
The Slackers,
Average White Band,
Monks,
Liliput,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eurythmics,
Lungfish,
Country Teasers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Colin Newman,
Ice-T,
Delta 5,
Judy Mowatt,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Television Personalities,
Adolescents,
Man Eating Sloth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dead C,
Mo-Dettes,
Bang On A Can,
kango's stein massive,
Barry Ungar,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Standells,
Cheater Slicks,
Fatback Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Camouflage,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Angels of Light,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
China Crisis,
Simply Red,
KRS-One,
Jawbox,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Freddie Wadling,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.