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 Hungary 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Davy DMX to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
Robert Görl,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lucky Dragons,
Gichy Dan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Hoover,
Lakeside,
The Monks,
Technova,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rites of Spring,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nico,
Faraquet,
Quadrant,
Soft Machine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lindisfarne,
Mission of Burma,
Tim Buckley,
Mantronix,
Ten City,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Modern Lovers,
Nils Olav,
Das Ding,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mars,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Normal,
Qualms,
The Black Dice,
Visage,
Stereo Dub,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Soul II Soul,
Dave Gahan,
New Order,
Ponytail,
Cheater Slicks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Scrapy,
Fluxion,
Basic Channel,
Theoretical Girls,
Fear,
The Cramps,
Accadde A,
Interpol,
Todd Terry,
The Remains,
John Lydon,
Popol Vuh,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jerry's Kids,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Little Man,
the Human League,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.