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 Nigeria and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Rapeman,
The Fire Engines,
James White and The Blacks,
One Last Wish,
The Black Dice,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Blues Magoos,
Gong,
Television Personalities,
Circle Jerks,
JFA,
The Names,
Swans,
Kaleidoscope,
Soul Sonic Force,
X-Ray Spex,
The Modern Lovers,
Young Marble Giants,
Aswad,
Joensuu 1685,
Gang Gang Dance,
David McCallum,
Electric Prunes,
Absolute Body Control,
the Human League,
R.M.O.,
the Germs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Piero Umiliani,
DJ Sneak,
John Cale,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arcadia,
June of 44,
Warren Ellis,
Tommy Roe,
Sonic Youth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Swell Maps,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Drive Like Jehu,
Soul II Soul,
Groovy Waters,
Ohio Players,
Quantec,
Thompson Twins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Simply Red,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
a-ha,
Barry Ungar,
Japan,
Danielle Patucci,
Lightning Bolt,
Sarah Menescal,
Laurel Aitken,
Skaos,
Clear Light,
Minutemen,
Von Mondo,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.