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 Latvia and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Circle Jerks to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
The Techniques,
Fluxion,
Albert Ayler,
Quadrant,
UT,
Sugar Minott,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sparks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
Robert Wyatt,
Eli Mardock,
The Five Americans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Desert Stars,
Bill Wells,
Rosa Yemen,
Blossom Toes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Delta 5,
Eurythmics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scientists,
The Buckinghams,
Mad Mike,
June of 44,
Suicide,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Henry Cow,
Dave Gahan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Black Sheep,
Cluster,
Nico,
Minutemen,
Sarah Menescal,
Shoche,
F. McDonald,
Yellowson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Mills,
The Black Dice,
Howard Jones,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blancmange,
Peter & Gordon,
the Soft Cell,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brick,
Symarip,
Tropical Tobacco,
Talk Talk,
Kas Product,
Andrew Hill,
Smog,
Pussy Galore,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Happenings,
Deakin,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.