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 Togo and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Roxette to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
cv313,
David Bowie,
U.S. Maple,
Motorama,
Buzzcocks,
Swell Maps,
Black Pus,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Slave,
The Standells,
Massinfluence,
The Blues Magoos,
The Moleskins,
Magma,
Flipper,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gong,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ronnie Foster,
Sonic Youth,
The Fire Engines,
Rekid,
Max Romeo,
Grey Daturas,
The Happenings,
Robert Görl,
Trumans Water,
New Order,
The Modern Lovers,
Eli Mardock,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lee Hazlewood,
World's Most,
Joe Finger,
The Wake,
Black Moon,
The Raincoats,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Stooges,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Tremeloes,
Morten Harket,
Al Stewart,
Gang Gang Dance,
Niagra,
Albert Ayler,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pagans,
Sister Nancy,
The Fortunes,
Jerry's Kids,
Animal Collective,
Agitation Free,
Warsaw,
Scientists,
New York Dolls,
Groovy Waters,
Tomorrow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.