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 Iran and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ 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 Hoover to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
David McCallum,
The Residents,
Unwound,
KRS-One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Charles Mingus,
Rekid,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Isaac Hayes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mo-Dettes,
Wire,
Young Marble Giants,
The United States of America,
Eve St. Jones,
The Move,
the Germs,
Thee Headcoats,
Underground Resistance,
FM Einheit,
Vainqueur,
Saccharine Trust,
Spandau Ballet,
John Holt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Banda Bassotti,
Hot Snakes,
Deepchord,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mark Hollis,
Suburban Knight,
Colin Newman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Guru Guru,
The Fire Engines,
Audionom,
The Alarm Clocks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Moebius,
Reagan Youth,
Can,
Barbara Tucker,
Kenny Larkin,
Junior Murvin,
Icehouse,
David Axelrod,
Minny Pops,
Minnie Riperton,
Unrelated Segments,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fugazi,
A Certain Ratio,
Dual Sessions,
Sandy B,
Sight & Sound,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
T. Rex,
Sun City Girls,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.