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 Bolivia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Gun Club to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Popol Vuh,
Outsiders,
Charles Mingus,
10cc,
Panda Bear,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Birthday Party,
Deakin,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rod Modell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
OOIOO,
Groovy Waters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Spandau Ballet,
New Age Steppers,
Stetsasonic,
Cluster,
The Alarm Clocks,
Aural Exciters,
The Stooges,
John Cale,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Leonard Cohen,
Swell Maps,
Joe Smooth,
A Certain Ratio,
Wally Richardson,
Bronski Beat,
The Dead C,
Eric Copeland,
Funkadelic,
Marmalade,
The Offenders,
Amon Düül,
Mars,
Von Mondo,
Al Stewart,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Star Department,
Con Funk Shun,
Cameo,
Ponytail,
Donny Hathaway,
Skaos,
Vainqueur,
Eurythmics,
Animal Collective,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
K-Klass,
X-102,
the Soft Cell,
The Index,
Shoche,
Maurizio,
Echospace,
Clear Light,
The Neon Judgement,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.