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 Netherlands and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar 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 Black Flag to the dance 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Kayak,
Joensuu 1685,
Lower 48,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Accadde A,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jeru the Damaja,
Tears for Fears,
The Searchers,
The Motions,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Royal Trux,
Jeff Lynne,
Donald Byrd,
Radio Birdman,
Panda Bear,
Soulsonic Force,
The Shadows of Knight,
Unwound,
Gregory Isaacs,
DJ Style,
Subhumans,
Unrelated Segments,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scratch Acid,
Supertramp,
The Monks,
DNA,
Grey Daturas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Groovy Waters,
Television Personalities,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Count Five,
Rites of Spring,
Lou Christie,
Tres Demented,
8 Eyed Spy,
Suicide,
the Slits,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Man Parrish,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Underground Resistance,
Barry Ungar,
Maurizio,
Silicon Teens,
Electric Prunes,
Section 25,
Pierre Henry,
Ice-T,
Public Enemy,
Josef K,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scrapy,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.