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 Bahamas and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soul Sonic Force to the dance 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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Byrd,
Anthony Braxton,
Y Pants,
Panda Bear,
Banda Bassotti,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Misunderstood,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ken Boothe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chris Corsano,
Delon & Dalcan,
Section 25,
Joy Division,
Aloha Tigers,
The Tremeloes,
Pole,
Grandmaster Flash,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Franke,
Los Fastidios,
The Flesh Eaters,
X-Ray Spex,
the Normal,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pylon,
David McCallum,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker,
Terrestrial Tones,
Q65,
Judy Mowatt,
Infiniti,
Freddie Wadling,
Blake Baxter,
Boz Scaggs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bluetip,
Slave,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sarah Menescal,
Reuben Wilson,
Country Teasers,
the Sonics,
Buzzcocks,
ABC,
Ornette Coleman,
Bronski Beat,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Johnny Clarke,
LL Cool J,
EPMD,
Intrusion,
The Techniques,
The Happenings,
cv313,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.