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 Monaco and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar 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 Audionom to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Quando Quango,
Second Layer,
Supertramp,
Pantaleimon,
John Holt,
Dawn Penn,
Unwound,
Von Mondo,
The Velvet Underground,
Iggy Pop,
Radiohead,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Move,
Bootsy Collins,
Soft Machine,
Ornette Coleman,
Schoolly D,
The Black Dice,
L. Decosne,
Swell Maps,
Rapeman,
Connie Case,
New Order,
AZ,
Technova,
Kool Moe Dee,
Reagan Youth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bush Tetras,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lakeside,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Archie Shepp,
Maleditus Sound,
The Pretty Things,
The Mummies,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nils Olav,
Little Man,
Michelle Simonal,
The Beau Brummels,
Index,
Interpol,
the Sonics,
Youth Brigade,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Drexciya,
Jacob Miller,
Warren Ellis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Mad Mike,
Ronnie Foster,
The Standells,
Rotary Connection,
Steve Hackett,
Tommy Roe,
Kayak,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kas Product,
Lightning Bolt,
The Monks,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.