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 Norway and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the grunge 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Toni Rubio,
The Move,
Delon & Dalcan,
X-101,
Wire,
Terry Callier,
Das Ding,
Faust,
Girls At Our Best!,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Matthew Halsall,
Ken Boothe,
Stockholm Monsters,
Echospace,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skaos,
Mantronix,
Howard Jones,
Zero Boys,
Organ,
Vladislav Delay,
Thompson Twins,
Sällskapet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pierre Henry,
Mandrill,
The Flesh Eaters,
Altered Images,
Godley & Creme,
Trumans Water,
This Heat,
The Fire Engines,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mad Mike,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eden Ahbez,
The Misunderstood,
The Electric Prunes,
Mission of Burma,
Duran Duran,
Black Bananas,
Ralphi Rosario,
Yellowson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Skatalites,
Jandek,
Soft Machine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sound,
Leonard Cohen,
Make Up,
Ultravox,
Kayak,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Monks,
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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.